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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