First, I do support regulated capitalism. I'm not one of these conservatives
who believes government is ALL bad (Lee, you lurking?). The government
plays an important role in protecting the health and safety of its citizens.
But the less regulation and government interference with free trade the
better.
I never said conspiracies don't happen. Watergate certainly was a
conspiracy.
And why do we know about it? Because conspiracies are doomed to fail -- the
bigger they are, the more people that know, the more likely they are to
fail. People just have a very hard time keeping a secret.
So I choose not to live my life in paranoia and looking for boogiemen in the
media and the government.
A media conspiracy is absolutely the most ridiculous notion I can think of.
It's just not possible. It would be too hard to keep a lid on it. There
are just too many idealistic people from the top to the bottom in any news
organization. If you'd ever worked in a large media company, as I do now,
you'd understand this. The idea of a media conspiracy across company lines
is just laughable.
H.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary P. McNeel, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:31 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: New News from Germany.
Oh no, no conspiracy at Watergate. They just all happened to be doing
illegal stuff, coincidentally and concurrently, by accident.
I hate to tell you, and I know you can't get your arms around it, but it
does not have to be an overt conspiracy. Just a little here and little
there. You pat my back, I pat yours.
If you feel compelled to protect your way of life and belief systems, that
is fine. I feel compelled to talk openly about what I feel is going on in,
and at its core is hurting, America. I have lived here all my life, made a
conscious decision to support the military by serving. Still believe in this
country and would gladly fight again for it. But. I will not pretend it is
perfect, that we have not allowed corporations to become unaccountable, that
we do not hold the people that run them accountable, that we are not
punishing them when the do something like exploit children (Nike and Disney,
there are many more).
No. No, that is quite contrary to what I learned as the American Way. That,
to me, is total, unregulated capitalism. Total exploitation. Sadly, and you
would probably disagree with me, I support and actually live by, regulated
capitalism. We regulate it for a reason. Because unregulated capitalism, as
in Standard Oil, is actually harmful to the system. It is more like Mexico
or other nearly unregulated countries. Tiny upper-class, no middle-class,
large lower-class.
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