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To: 3bar who wrote (172634)	7/25/2009 6:35:19 PM
From: E. Charters	3 Recommendations Respond to of 313029

I dunno. effin MS keyboad destroyed a really good answer to that question in one keystroke. Basically the Soviets did the same thing but devolved as they could not handle distribution and plunder by a central system. Only supply and commercial demand can handle need and distribution problems. It is solved by many into many customer competition systems. You see that emphasized in all kinds of f drama where in effect the customer at the general store counter says if he can't get the goods from him he will travel to the next town and deal with someone else. The not so subtle message to the American consumer was that he has had choice from the get go, not a managed system and it works better because of adversary competition keeps the goods flowing. The US stands accused of Land Plunder and displacement of non compensated non citizen minorities because of cultural conflict. This is justified as if one side won't stop warring they need to be dealt with. On the other hand it is all point of view. What do you call taking Montana for farming if it is not a type of war? If the US were to compensate the Indians for displacement and war time concentration camps, which phase lasted for 250 years, then they would be obligated to pay about 37.5 trillion dollars to the relatives of the displaced persons. Don't hold you breath for that one to come in. So what flows from this attitude of might makes right instead of fairness? I guess it is a continuous justification of suppression of rights where they seem not to be needed. If they can state state security for suppression of evidence of the Warren Commission in the murder of an individual in Texas in 1963, I guess they can state anything at all about anything. There is no limit to the government's power of deceit. What I know about that particular incident is incredibly it was done to cover up the government's own complicity in the event. Evidently quite a few people in absolute power positions thought it was justified. All it was justified for was their keeping this police state in power. Believe it, Garrison was no loon. He knew exactly what was going on. I don't know how he knew it, but he knew it. Sulla now busied himself with slaughter, and murders without number or limit filled the city. Many, too, were killed to gratify private hatreds, although they had no relations with Sulla, but he gave his consent in order to gratify his adherents. At last one of the younger men, Caius Metellus, made bold to ask Sulla in the senate what end there was to be of these evils, and how far he would proceed before they might expect such doings to cease. "We do not ask thee," he said, "to free from punishment those whom thou hast determined to slay, but to free from suspense those whom thou hast determined to save." Their efforts to save the republic from a non-existent threat eventually forced Rome into Empire, thus in retrospect, the futility of their actions, and the waste of a powerful well intentioned ruler, becomes evident. Plutarch - Life of Sulla **************************************************