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To: jttmab who wrote (166590)	7/20/2005 11:52:45 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

”… the ones that rise to power are nearly as bad as the ones that are overthrown.”, Whether they are as bad, nearly as bad, or some other bad along the continuum of bad, I got your point. Freedom is living without coercion from religious authority, political authority, or social authority … all of which are corrupt. They may appear to be in contention but in reality are thoughtlessly striving to be one another. Freedom is an ideal rarely if ever being completely realized in the material world. How often do you have the ability to come and go without permission, and without having to account for motives and undertakings. In civilized culture you must be a ‘Bobby McGee’ with "nothin’ left to lose". You do, when you are willing to sacrifice all material circumstance for a noble life and cause. As political battles are won or lost the rise to power by the champions of the victor is met with the insatiable desire to secure and build that power base. Wherein you can never separate the power mechanisms from human ego … the formula for corruption. ”Hypothetical: I have a cause to bring peace to the mid-east,… Political peace is a far different thing than living for ‘freedom and justice for all’ which brings an internal sense of peace with your own humanity.