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Date Posted: 20:51:35 08/14/00 Mon
Author: Nobody
Subject: Re: heh...
In reply to: steve 's message, "Re: heh..." on 20:36:44 08/14/00 Mon

> Yea, I have been watching on and off myself tonight, I
> registered republican back in 1993, but I am now
> thourghly disgusted with that party, needless to say,
> in full review of the communists, I mean dem.'s, I
> have thourghly concluded that they have even less to
> offer me...what a bunch of hypocrites...the constant
> battle for every once of credit between the two
> parties is ridiculous...granted I felt Reagan was a
> good president, it was only because of his timing, we
> needed a person like him when we had him...beyond
>
only salvation this country has found is the
> fact that neither band of flunkies have had complete
> control of our goverment for 18 of the last 20 years,
> the only time I like division is when it is amongst
> the enemies of the people, our fishy leaders, or the
> politicians...
>
> I have been pondering civil rights and the role of
> society and the individual again quiet fervently...and
> I am not talking civil rights as in the question of
> race or sex, but as in the rights of the individual
> balanced against the purpose of society. In my mind,
> the duty of society should be to best ensure the
> broadest range of individual freedom for each person
> to persue life, liberty, and blah, blah, blah...yet
> while so many people want this, and feel these civil
> rights should be what is best in spirt of our country,
> they neglect their civil reaponsability to properly
> maintain society through each persons small part so
> that this is possible. In order to do this, we are
> all likely to have to sacrifice some small notion of
> what we believe in for a broader sense of freedom to
> be enjoyed...yet everyone is so wrapped up in their
> own little world and dogmatic beliefs this is not
> likely possible in the current light of things.
> Another part of this reasponsibility is to remain
> vigilent against those who would use the social
> structure to promote there ideas, beliefs, and
> concerns to a higher light at the expense of
> others...again, this is sorely neglected and does not
> presently seem feasible...allas...the prison and
> torment of the thinking individual...I agree with
> sarte at least part of the time when he says, other
> people are hell....however, I would amend it to add
> that most other people are hell...
>
> -stevie
>
I was listenning to everything you said and I am thinking about it.
:-)

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Replies:

Re: heh... -- oyster, 20:59:43 08/14/00 Mon

Re: heh... -- steve, 21:29:20 08/14/00 Mon

Re: heh... -- oyster, 21:45:54 08/14/00 Mon
- libertarian agenda and some notes on free trade... -- steve, 22:07:40 08/14/00 Mon