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RE: Greg: Democracy?
Hmmm...sounds like we're in "violent" agreement! -- gp
On Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:56 PM, Edward Britton [SMTP:fremin@geocities.com] wrote:
> 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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