|  | Posted by Billy Joe on 09/30/05 01:00 
anthonyberet wrote:> 1@odds wrote:
 >> I stay on my own in the WinMX newsgroup, making the casual
 >> observation now and then.  It's a tough crowd there, not for the
 >> faint of heart.
 >
 >>
 >> I don't think I'll participate at the WinMX newsgroup any more
 >> because it has gone from helpful & humorous to hateful, and I can
 >> see *that* anywhere I look these days, no sense going there looking
 >> for it.
 > Calm down! Hateful?
 > I don't see it that way.
 > I must say I have been a but surprised that some of the real regulars
 > have used unkind words to one another lately, but Usenet has been full
 > of  strong remarks ever since it found me.
 >
 > I only wish I had more time to participate in the world of winmx a bit
 > more fully recently.
 >
 >> To the Americans I have only to say:  YOU HAVE A CRIMINAL SYNDICATE
 >> RUNNING YOUR GOVERNMENT.  IF YOU DON'T STOP IT, YOU WILL DIE.
 >
 > Oh yeah, that's true - it has been that way for quite a while though
 > - I fear for democracy, I really do.
 > Corrupt/stupid governments are not rare at all, I am afraid.
 
 Fear not anthonyberet, democracy is not dead - merely taking a back seat to
 someone's god during an opportunist's drunken power ride!
 
 It's kind of cute that our theocracy pooh-poohs that of others.  Oh no,
 sorry, it's always been that way, hasn't it?  One of the great traditions of
 humanity - my religion (or lack of it) is better that yours, na na na na -
 nahhhh ;-0)  We're just trying to fit in to a well established history -
 like that of other empires - Greece, Rome, Egypt, Turkey, USSR, Britain.
 And, undoubtedly, we will do just as well as each of them has at it.
 
 BJ
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