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To: unclewest who wrote (148248)	11/22/2005 9:53:13 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793677

UW, what is weird to me is people voting to have their freedoms taken away: <<<It is the struggle to maintain our Western way of life and the very culture that has made it possible.>> The problem now is too many Americans want to give up the struggle completely. They are not motivated to preserve liberty for their own progeny.> It's like turkeys voting for Xmas, Thanksgiving and how about inventing another feast too? I watch everyone here [where it affects me most] and we get more and more and more and every election, people choose more again. I am convinced that most people don't like freedom, lack confidence in their abilities, like to be told what to do, have an alpha male dominance hierarchy with a "strong leader" [who can be a woman in more liberal societies], like a bit of marching, saluting and getting stuck into anyone who opposes them. An English friend who served in Cyprus recounted to me how being in the army was actually very nice [not actually being shot at and having bits of one's friends strewn around]. It was orderly, one just did as one was told, meals were ready on time, no thinking needed [specifically banned - or at least any action based on thinking rather than orders]. I think a lot of people instinctively want to create that in their lives. Freedom is not for the average person. They don't want it. No wonder it's such a fragile flower, constantly in need of defence. Ever since being a little boy at school, I've noticed how people form up into groups, get a leader, get bossy, and do away with freedom. I remember a special example when I was about 7 and Jimmy Reece was leading a band of boys whooping around along the fenceline in the distance and I watched them, pondering what they were doing and how they all just formed into line, following the leader, not that they were actually doing anything except subsuming their selves into the group. I realized then that I'm not like other people! That process has repeated itself thousands of times. At times I've joined in. I stood and applauded Dr Jacobs in San Diego along with the crowd at an AGM in Y2K. I felt like part of a revivalist hallelujah mob, but it was fun and I thought he deserved applause and was going to do it anyway, being surprised to find the crowd was of like mind. I've joined political parties and appointed a leader and gone out there and won votes for the party - the latest time nearly displacing the Labour government with the support we achieved in Epsom electorate for Act and Rodney Hide [Google can tell you about it]. I put up a LOT of signs in Epsom, gave out leaflets, talked to people and scrutineered. So I'm the same. But I have one eye on the exit. The political party is for freedom; act.org.nz Mqurice