Western European born, US Raised, but raised with an understanding
that there are two realms you live in, spiritual/political-governmental.
Render unto Caesar, that which is Caesar and render unto God that
which is God. 4th Commandment stuff. (Remember I come from a highly
religious background)
I never thought that government is for me. Government is for
government. I owe them taxes and obeying laws. I serve the church
and it gets my first allegiance.
Do governments serve themselves? Yes all the time. Any institution
that has been around becomes intrenched in institutional
mentality. That does not mean I have to quite listening to them.
Any government that operates under the delusion that you can have
complete privacy will become a victim of its own delusions.
If everyone put up a fence to protect their privacy and anyone
crossed over that fence, we would fast become a victim of it. My
privacy only exists until it butts up against someone else's. We
have built a shibboleth out of privacy, something that has never
really existed.
Stewart
At 06:21 PM 1/28/2008, you wrote:
You sound like a good apparatchik.
I'm sure similar pressure is being exercised against programmers who work
on electronic voting machines.
Perhaps it is my eastern European heritage that makes me more sensitive
to the fact that a government "of the people" may not be operating "for
the people." I do not believe that when a government official approaches
you and asks you to commit a crime, the proper answer should not be "Yes
Sir!"
Some of you might find it interesting to watch the movie trilogy: "Man of
Marble," "Man of Iron," and "Man of Steel." In those films it is
interesting to observe the attitude that this government has towards its
citizens. Looks so much like what the neocons want America to be.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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