Greg: Democracy?

[Edward Britton <fremin@geocities.com>]

Greg:

>So, what would you advocate as an alternative?

How about a nation where people are allowed to be responsible for
themselves WITHOUT governmental intervention into the lives of it's
citizens. This "utopia" would truly be one in which privacy were respected
and upheld as a right.

. . .Or, we can continue lazily on our current path toward economic
totalitarianism.

Edward   ><>

>--Greg P.
>
>On Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:10 AM, Margaret Tarbet
[SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
>> "But what about voting and elections? Civil disobedience-we don't
>> need that much of it, we are told, because we can go through the
>> electoral system. And by now we should have learned, but maybe we
>> haven't, for we grew up with the notion that the voting booth is a
>> sacred place, almost like a confessional. You walk into the voting
>> booth and you come out and they snap your picture and then put it in
>> the papers with a beatific smile on your face. You've just voted;
>> that is democracy. But if you even read what the political
>> scientists say-although who can?-about the voting process, you find
>> that the voting process is a sham. Totalitarian states love voting.
>> You get people to the polls and they register their approval. I know
>> there is a difference-they have one party and we have two parties.
>> We have one more party than they have, you see. "
>> 
>> -- Howard Zinn, teacher
>> "Civil Obedience"
>> http://www.infoasis.com/people/stevetwt/Zinn/
>> 
>> 
>> Zinn strikes right to the heart of our privacy problems, i think:
>> we expect our 'elected representatives' to take care of our needs
>> for things like privacy, but they don't.   They take care of other
>> people's desires to invade and exploit our privacy, because those
>> other people count (money, generally) and we don't.
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