In a message dated 5/31/2005 4:59:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: < Do you suggest some kind of revolution ? < We have some experiences with that, I'd suggest to read some Lenin's < books, or epecially Marx - they suggested similar solutions.
Major change is necessary, IMO. It will be either evolutionary or revolutionary. Evolutionary change is tried every day under our "rule of law", and the failure is obvious. We now have only one political party - Repugnocrats. Revolution - violent overthrow - is the only remaining choice, but it was declared illegal by our Constitutional framers, which is what revolutionaries always do as soon as they take power. It should be violent in order to act as a deterrent. "... in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others." [Voltaire] But revolutions easily get out of control, and are also always subverted by the next bunch of power-mad thugs. Shays' Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Lincoln's war to prevent voluntary disassociation show it even happens in the land of the free. The end result is almost always more oppression. Lenin's paradise was 1,000 times more oppressive than that of the Tsar, from whom Lenin "liberated" the people. Bottom line: no permanent workable solution. Workaround: increase one's personal level of tolerance for the increasingly intolerable. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
