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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (4427)	3/9/2003 11:52:22 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

No lorne, I represent, support and believe in the America I learned about as a child in school. That country was a place where free people chose representatives to carry out the objectives of the majority. The idea was the government was intended to be weak and the people being governed strong. Taxes were intended to be the bare minimum to support the necessary expenses of the public servants chosen to represent us. It was a country where people were free to believe what they wished without their thoughts and actions being controlled or manipulated by others. Above all it was a country where the highest office of government was refused the power to control the people without restraint. Perhaps it was only a dream by those idealists who paid the blood price you mentioned, but even so, I happen to believe it was a good dream. I doubt those idealists ever envisioned America being a place where the media was under almost complete control of the government, which prior to the Internet is about the condition we've lived in for over a century. Those idealists also believed, as I do, that secrecy and deception are the tools of tyrants. They believed that through freedom of the press and through freedom of speech, all voices would be heard thus eliminating the primary weapons of dictators and kings. Perhaps you find it unAmerican of me to hold to those ideals in a place where for every two hours we work, one hour's pay goes to the government, and where a court decided who's vote counts and who's vote doesn't, and where one person gains the power to make war - against the will of the people and against the will of the free world. Perhaps it is wrong to hold on to the dream long after the dream has died. If so, I'm wrong, but I feel a deep sorrow for those such as yourself who never had the dream.