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To: D. Long who wrote (3528)	4/12/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

D. Long, <In America, diverse and otherwise hostile peoples are able to live together under shared institutions and enjoy equal access to opportunity while being able to practice their individual beliefs and customs without prejudice from government agencies, and have legal recourse to protect their interests from others, including THE STATE.> Unless you live in waco or Ruby Ridge or own a ranch in the Santa Monica mountains that the government wants to own. If you do, the STATE will gun you down. Here's a little lesson in how the real world works. Where worker bees become warrior bees, as long as the profit is good. The activities of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler prior to and during World War II...are instructive. At that time, these three firms dominated motor vehicle production in both the United States and Germany. Due to its mass production capabilities, automobile manufacturing is one of the most crucial industries with respect to national defense. As a result, these firms retained the economic and political power to affect the shape of governmental relations both within and between these nations in a manner which maximized corporate global profits. In short, they were private governments unaccountable to the citizens of any country yet possessing tremendous influence over the course of war and peace in the world. corpwatch.org

To: D. Long who wrote (3528)	4/12/1999 11:53:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 17770

Which is why no doubt your wish may come true Mr. Hodgkin, and Americans may soon enough be killing each other for the very same reasons Serbs and Albanians and Croats are. I don't know whether you intentionally distort what other people say to preen your own ego, or whether you are simply too ignorant to understand simple English. Reading your posts, I swing from one explanation to the other. I am tired of you either through intention or through stupidity distorting virtually every message I post. Since you take such apparent delight in distorting virtually everything I say, and it is conceivable that some people on this thread may not understand the degree to which your dishonesty extends and may actually think I have said some of the asinine things your venom has falsely attributed to me, it is time for us to stop communicating. I would ask that you not respond any more to my postings. I will stop responding to yours. This will avoid any need for either of us to take other steps to protect our reputations.