Re: [CTRL] Coo-Cou-Coup

1999-01-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Alamaine Ratliff forwarded: Senate impeachment trial opens: political coup enters climactic stage By the Editorial Board 8 January, 1999 The opening of the Senate impeachment trial will be remembered in history as a critical milestone in the p

Re: [CTRL] Pandering Pols Federalizing Frenzy

1999-01-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- flw forwarded: Rehnquist to Congress: Stop Federalizing Crime On New Year's Eve day, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court William Rehnquist delivered his annual end-of- year report on the judiciary to Congress. His message to legislators, spoken in

[CTRL] Understanding Republicans was something else

1999-01-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- One poster: Republicans, in general, advocate both economic and social interventions. Libertarians advocate neither. That seems to me to be a rather greater difference then you would indicate above. Edward Britton wrote: How, exactly, do Republicans advocate social

Re: [CTRL] Republican Hate Rhetoric Turns Deadly

1999-01-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Gerald Harp forwarded: Tom J. Wright A Semi-Weekly Column of Political Commentary January 1-January 15, 1999 Republican Hate Rhetoric Turns Deadly: Somebody Stop Them Before They Kill Again Although overshadowed lately by MonicaGate, the brutal beating

Re: [CTRL] Living in corporate America.

1999-01-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev wrote: > Historian Arnold Toynbee studied 21 past civilizations, > looking for common factors in their demise. The two most > important ones were the EXTREME CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH, > and inflexibility in the face of changing conditions > within and around them. Aaaah

Re: [CTRL] Living in corporate America.

1999-01-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would estimate that of over 50% of all consumer manufactured goods are coming from Communist China. Why? Well, because the capitalist built their latest and best manufacturing plants there? Why? Cheap Labour. Huge Market. MJ: How long has

Re: [CTRL] Republican Hate Rhetoric Turns Deadly

1999-01-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: While the conclusion may or may NOT be true [cause], what exactly makes the muder of an individual within a 'protected' group WORSE than the murder of some other individual? Gerald Harp wrote: Yes, murder is murder and the US murder statistics stand out

Re: [CTRL] Living in corporate America.

1999-01-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev wrote: YIKES!!! The best way to do that is with a progressive income tax up to 100% when anyone approaches that limit. No tax shelters. No foolin'. 100% tax on income over $2,000,000 per year. If you can't live on that, take a second job in another

Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: [CTRL] Understanding Republicans was something else]

1999-01-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: Criminalization of drugs, prostitution, gambling, sodomy ... encouragement of prayer in the government schools, the government schools themselves ... Edward Britton wrote: "Criminalization of drugs (a wasted effort, apart from filling the coffers of crimi

Re: [CTRL] Clinton's "Don't Look Down" Economy

1999-01-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Hilary Thomas wrote: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is cleverly done by eliminating the middle class. MJ: Horse hockey ... let's see the numbers to back up this rhetoric. Regard$, --MJ The long-range solution [to high unemployment] is to increase

[CTRL] That which is Seen and that which is NOT Seen -- The Broken Window

1999-01-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: At the turn of the Century, ALL Government consumed 1% +/- of an individual's earnings ... in the 1950s it was less than 10 percent. Currently the Government STEALS 50% +/- of an individual's earnings and utilizes these 'just collections' for unconstitutional

Re: [CTRL] Understanding Republicans ///

1999-01-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: It is an effort to CONTROL behaviors based NOT upon freedom and liberty. [ALL non-property 'crimes' are revenue generators :) ] Edward Britton wrote: Agreed, but never contested. We were discussing ways, APART from the punishment of/for criminals that Re

Re: [CTRL] Understanding Republicans ///

1999-01-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: It is an effort to CONTROL behaviors based NOT upon freedom and liberty. [ALL non-property 'crimes' are revenue generators :) ] Agent Smiley wrote: I really don't understand. The illegality of murder is a revenue generator? Is not ALL crime an OPPORTUNIT

Re: [CTRL] NAFTA at 5 Part 1

1999-01-16 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments: NAFTA's proponents promised benefits for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The promises - 200,000 new U.S. jobs from NAFTA per year, higher wages in Mexico and a growing U.S. trade surplus with Mexico, environmental clean-up and impro

Re: [CTRL] Striped Sleeves Mean Impeachment Is Military?

1999-01-16 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Gerald Harp wrote: However, the level of the proceeding has been drenched in pomposity to date as though the Republicans are desperate in making themselves appear sober rather than the vengeful little twits attempting to overthrow a government that they are.

Re: [CTRL] Republican vs Democrat

1999-01-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Jim Norman wrote: If fact there is no difference between the parties. It's as if they are all the same, exactly as you stated. How is it we can find no honorable men to run for an office and when we do find a good man, we can't get him elected because the l

Re: [CTRL] Capital controls.

1999-01-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev forwarded: THE CASE FOR CAPITAL CONTROLS by Paul Davidson In this decade there has been an international currency crisis every two to three years: the European Monetary System crisis in 1992, the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-5 and the 1997-98 Asia

Re: [CTRL] [wethepeople] Libertarians: The Cult of Liberty

1999-01-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Mike Moxley wrote: Libertarians: The Cult of Liberty by Mike Moxley Libertarians claim to be the promoters and defenders of Liberty in the truest sense of the intentions of the founding fathers of our nation. Is this so? To the Libertarian, the ULTIMATE VALU

[CTRL] Economics 101

1999-01-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Economics 101 by Walter E. Williams MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT ECONOMICS IS DIFFICULT, but it's really simple. More than anything else, economics is a way of thinking. Knowing just a little bit of economics can save us from the tricks of political hustlers. At the heart of economi

Re: [CTRL] One More Excuse for Seizure of Property

1999-01-22 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Agent Smiley forwarded: The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Anyone arrested for driving drunk in New York City will have their cars seized and not given back unless they are acquitted of the charges, the police commissioner said Thursday. "There's n

Re: [CTRL] One More Excuse for Seizure of Property

1999-01-23 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev wrote: Are you stupid beyond belief or what? What kind of phony comparisons are you trying to pull here? MJ: There are no phony comparisons -- THINK -- if you believe *I* am dangerous because *I* have gotten shitfaced drunk and gotten in a car and perform to Standa

Re: [CTRL] Free Speech Is Whatever the Government Allows

1999-01-24 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Franklin Wayne Poley wrote: That says it all. And "human rights" are however the government defines them. MJ: Yes, no rights exist EXCEPT by FORCE. Regard$, --MJ As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends fo

Re: [CTRL] Dictatorship?

1999-01-24 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Prudy Are you suggesting some sort of dictator as a leader? J FROST wrote: How do you know when you are in a republic/democracy and not a dictatorship? MJ: You liken America to a Dictatorship (itself not inherrantly a BAD concept) ... considering that Anarchy is esse

Re: [CTRL] Dictatorship?

1999-01-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: In regards to America as the constitution plainly states ... [followed by our current bastardized system of statism] J FROST wrote: This is supposed to be a republic so quote all the happy horse shit until you are blue in the face and when you are done, tell m

Re: [CTRL] Constitution / religion

1999-01-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- J FROST wrote: Kind of funny modern "constutionalist" telling the founding fathers intended separation between church and state when the mc guffy readers ... school books and even the bible was used as doctrine and teaching tools in schools. Imagine that the

Re: [CTRL] Dictatorship?

1999-01-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- J FROST wrote: > You have made all kinds of replies to questions I didn't ask. Perhaps we can cut to the chase ... describe what *YOU* believe to be the 'legitimate' form/function of government and WHY (what derivation you reach your conclusion). Regard$, --MJ I have never le

Re: [CTRL] Constitution

1999-01-25 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: To PROTECT from FORCE and FRAUD an individual's RIGHT to his OWN life is the ONLY legitimate function of Government J FROST wrote: Then why does the government protect whores, homosexuals dope users, drunks "rights" If the Constitution protect's an individua

Re: [CTRL] **DOPE SUPPORTERS**

1999-02-04 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Brown, Jeremy wrote: It appears that, in an attempt to get to the bottom of this, we have painted ourselves into a corner. MJ: ? Brown, Jeremy wrote: This is the old "fire in a crowded theater" argument. MJ: False analogy. One who yells fire in a crowded theater fr

Re: [CTRL] Howard: DOPE SUPPORTERS

1999-02-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Edward Britton wrote: chiding MJ: There is a stark difference between OBSERVATION and insult. Regard$, --MJ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -- Galileo DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational e

Re: [CTRL] [prj] DOPE SUPPORTERS

1999-02-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev wrote: This is how modern society is organized. If you don't like it, move to Libertaria. MJ: Whatever the MOB says goes? Certainly a Tyranny easily identified by another name. Regard$, --MJ A Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. A Republic: T

Re: [CTRL] [prj] DOPE SUPPORTERS

1999-02-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- nurev wrote: This is how modern society is organized. If you don't like it, move to Libertaria. MJ: Whatever the MOB says goes? Certainly a Tyranny easily identified by another name. nurev wrote: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard this song before. But do ke

Re: [CTRL] THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY

1999-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Well my computer has been 'ill' ... This is total and absolute nonsense: Das GOAT wrote: 1901 "The Spindletop [oil] gusher in Beaumont, Texas, gives John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust its first major competition. The Beaumont Field contains more oil

Re: [CTRL] THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY

1999-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Kris Millegan wrote: Read what was written and what you posted. 90% control does not mean output. Dogmatic blindness? MJ: Standard Oil's market percentage PEAKED at 88%. Reaching such a level is NOT a monopoly NOR does it imply/infer/mean such a level was sustained

Re: [CTRL] OT: People Asking Questions (fwd)

1999-07-20 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: From another list I'm on: Question: I am not a pilot, or an airplane mechanic, so I ask this from a position of ignorance and seek responses from those more expert. I was reading the accounts of the plane accident, and from what I

Re: [CTRL] textbook propaganda (fwd)

1999-09-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- >From Sean: Well. My senior honors government/economics class is well into the first chapter now, and something's disturbed me about our textbook. Section 3 of the book gives a basic run down of different economic systems and how they work. There is a section fo

[CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get... by Mark Skousen "The modern market economy accords wealth and distribution income in a highly unequal, socially adverse and also functionally damaging fashion." --John Kenneth Galbraith The allegation i

[CTRL] Guardians of the Constitution or Watching Out for Their Own?

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The Supreme Court of the United States: Guardians of the Constitution or Watching Out for Their Own? by Daniel J. Pilla By the very terms of the Constitution, all judicial officers, as well as others in government service, "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation" to support the

[CTRL] Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal by Randall G. Holcombe Popular opinion holds that most of the credit (or blame) for the incredible growth of the federal government should go to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. While Roosevelt certainly was a willin

Re: [CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: Don't be fooled by these oinkres' propaganda. MJ: Ad hominem Nurev Ind Research wrote: The problem with unequal income distribution is NOT inequality. The problem is CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH into the hands of fewer and fewer people. This i

Re: [CTRL] The glorious Welfare State economic system.

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: What kind of human being are you really if you can advocate for this system? Minimum Wage Workers Unable to Afford Rent Anywhere in Nation MJ: Why do you insist upon calling an orange a banana? Regard$, --MJ I sit on a man's back, choki

Re: [CTRL] The Rich Get Richer, and the Poor Get...

1999-09-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: Don't be fooled by these oinkres' propaganda. MJ: Ad hominem Joshua: If the shoe fits... MJ: It is your shoe and apparently it fits your foot as you continue to concentrate on the individual making the statement rather than the statem

Re: [CTRL] This is news?

1999-09-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua forwarded: As the United States approaches to the 2000 presidential race, in which more money will be spent than ever, the fact must be faced that American has become a plutocracy, rather than a democracy. MJ: America was never intended to be a Democra

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua quoted: Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned with only with gain and profitability. Marxism is concerned with the distribution of wealth on an equal basis and the e

[CTRL] Yours and mine

1999-09-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Yours and mine by Walter Williams TOM BETHELL, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and Washington correspondent for "The American Spectator," has just penned an excellent book titled ""The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Throug

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Ric Carter: If it *doesn't* work, it don't matter diddly-squat what its moral attributes may be - it's dead. And if the participants *don't* benefit, it can hardly be considered 'moral'. Joshua Not really. Something doesn't have to work to be moral. What Hi

Re: [CTRL] Godless Commie Rat!!!

1999-09-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: Capitalism has NEVER existed. Please explain how forcibly taking from SOME and giving this to others is moral. SM: CAPITALISM has existed for centuries and leaves no room for truly representative government, be it socialism or any kind of truly free ma

[CTRL] The Origins of the Public School

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Origins of the Public School by Robert P. Murphy [Robert Murphy is a recent graduate from Hillsdale College in Michigan] Hardly anyone disputes the contention that the modern public school is seriously flawed. Test scores continue to be

[CTRL] The Central Fallacy of Public Schooling

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Central Fallacy of Public Schooling by Daniel Hager [Daniel Haer is a writer in Lansing, Michigan] When World War II ended, Congress authorized a tax cut to take effect January 1, 1946. YoungAmerica, a publication distributed through publ

[CTRL] Great Myths of the Great Depression

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Great Myths of the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Reed Many volumes have been written about the Great Depression and its impact on the lives of millions of Americans. Historians, economists, and politicians have all combed the wreckage searchi

[CTRL] The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal

1999-09-19 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal by Robert Higgs The Great Depression was a watershed in American history. Soon after Herbert Hoover assumed the presidency in 1929, the economy began to decline, and between 1930 and 1933 the contract

Re: [CTRL] Congress' voting record

1999-08-14 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Bill Richer wrote: The New American magazine just came out with the voting records of U.S. Congressmen for the first half of 1999. They looked at 20 of the most important bills in each house, then found out how often the person voted constitutionally. Here are some resu

Re: [CTRL] The 10th Amendment (fwd)

1999-08-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The authority for Executive Order BEYOND the Executive Department aside ... The tenth amendment was 'de-toothed' by Chief USURPING Justice Marshall with McCulloch versus Maryland -- this complements his declaration that the Court says what the Law is in Marbury v. Madison, 1803.

Re: [CTRL] The Federal Reserve Bank is a Private Company

1999-07-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The Myth of the 'Independent' Fed by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an 'independent' agency operated by selfless public servants striving to 'fine-tune' the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a nonpolitic

Re: [CTRL] GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF

1999-08-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- T Nohava wrote: http://www.nypost.com/news/1315.htm GATE$: MY DOUGH WILL GO BEFORE I LOG OFF By KIRSTEN DANIS Company Press Release SOURCE: Gates Learning Foundation; William H. Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Issue Statement on Returning Their

Re: [CTRL] Propaganda in a Democratic Society

1999-09-27 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Sean McDougal forwarded: There are two kinds of propaganda - rational propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those who make it and those to whom it is addressed, and non-rational propaganda that is not consonant

Re: [CTRL] Reaffirm Your Commitment to the American Founding

1999-10-05 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua America's founding principles were concocted by our Founding Finaglers who are well described by the philosophers below. The Founding Finaglers made damn sure that the institutions of power they constructed for themselves would never completely be u

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Tenorlove wrote: I don't know about abolish; after all, they refused to approve thalidomide for morning sickness, saving thousands of U.S. babies from horrible birth defects. MJ: What of all the deaths from delays, bloated costs and failure to approve otherwise legitimate

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ: What of all the deaths from delays, bloated costs and failure to approve otherwise legitimate products? Tenorlove wrote: Read my previous post again. MJ: Funny, the words were ordered in the same manner and related the SAME meaning. Regard$, --MJ While the Pobb

Re: [CTRL] ABOLISH THE FDA?--YES!

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Prudence L. Kuhn wrote: If we could just get it back to the policies it used about forty years ago, it would be fine. That was before it was sold lock, stock and barrel to the pharmaceutical companies. MJ: If this were TRUE, why is it a ten year (on average) $300 mill

Re: [CTRL] A Clinton third term??? ...again. (fwd)

1999-11-02 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MICHAEL SPITZER wrote: Also does anyone know the status of H.J. RES. 17, proposing an amendment to the Constitution to repeal the twenty-second amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms a president may serve? MJ: WHAT limitations? By utilizing th

Re: [CTRL] Micrsoft: A Predatory Monopoly--Wall Street Journal (fwd)

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- A Predatory Monopoly monopoly Exclusive possession of the trade in some article of merchandise; the condition of having no competitor in the sale of some commodity, or in the exercise of some trade or business. Oh, you mean ... The MONOPOLY Federal Judge agrees the MONOPOLY J

[CTRL] Microsoft and liberty

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ Microsoft and liberty Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Is free enterprise legal in America or not? That is the fundamental question raised by federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's 207-page "Findings of Fact" against Microsoft. Here's a judge who has

Re: [CTRL] Microsoft and liberty

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Microsoft and liberty Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Is free enterprise legal in America or not? Joshua This isn't free enterprise. It's monopoly capitalism. The natural outcome of of unregulated free enterprise. Monopoly Capitalism is more destructive than global w

[CTRL] Antitrust and Microsoft

1999-11-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Antitrust and Microsoft by Dominick Armentano The Microsoft Corporation's continuing difficulties with the Department of Justice, even after an appeals court ruled in the company's favor, reveal the absurdity of attempting to apply 19th-century antitrust law to a 21st-century co

Re: [CTRL] Dismal economic system. Dismal science.

1999-11-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua forwarded: The Growth Consensus Unravels Jonathan Rowe, Dollars and Sense It was John Maynard Keynes, after all, who devised the growth-boosting mechanisms of macroeconomic policy to combat the Depression of the 1930s; it was Keynesians who emb

[CTRL] A History of Folly

2001-11-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] A History of Folly by Adam Young "How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? I'll tell you how I respond: I'm amazed. I just can't believe it, be

[CTRL] Our Masters of Propaganda

2001-11-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Our Masters of Propaganda by Stephen Gowans Washington pulls out the stops in its own propaganda war One of the surest ways of knowing you're being blanketed by propaganda is to be told that whatever makes Washingt

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-10-29 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew WTF? the media in this country is nothing but a corporate shill at this point - the news, which used to stand on its own, and therefore have some room to actually inve

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-10-29 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? MJ Simply WATCH or READ the material put forth. Thew WTF? the media in this country is nothing but a corporate shill at this point -

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? MJ Simply WATCH or READ the material put forth. Thew I do read it, and I do watch it, and I don't see it. So instead of a snide non-a

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? MJ Very much so. Thew could you explain how? flw If you define "capitalism" as Free Market, then of course the media is anti capitalist. If you define modern capitalism

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-10-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew what you say may be true, but there are no "facts" in anything you've said. MJ What 'facts' do you imagine are absent? thew all I've asked you for are some hard facts, examples to back up what you say MJ And I have POINTED to reality FOR you. thew I d

Re: [CTRL] "Liberty or Death"

2001-11-01 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew if you read the messages I didn't mention capitalism, but corporatism MJ Yawn. Thew without even getting into it the media is anti- capitalist? Regard$, --MJ The sting [of gossip] is the truth of it. -- Benjamin Franklin http://www.ctrl.o

Re: [CTRL] Who Benefits from the Free Trade Agreements?

2001-04-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua Who Benefits from the Free Trade Agreements? By John W. Warnock EVERYONE (in the end) benefits from free trade, unfortunately the trip which is labelled such has nothing to do with free trade. Regard$, --MJ Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxe

Re: [CTRL] " nothing new under the sun."

2001-04-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua Who said this, and when? MJ This is absurd religious nonsense with little if any basis in reality. Regard$, --MJ Most economic fallacies derive ... from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Mi

Re: [CTRL] " nothing new under the sun."

2001-04-21 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ This is absurd religious nonsense with little if any basis in reality. Nessie So is the belief that "Everyone (in the end) benefits" from "free trade." This is a belief on your part, nothing more. MJ No. Nessie There are no empirical data to back it up. Bel

[CTRL] Does Democracy Promote Peace?

2001-04-26 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Does Democracy Promote Peace? By James Ostrowski Does democracy promote peace? We are told continually that it does. Let's compare the rhetoric to the reality. Not to be confused with a republic, a democracy is a

[CTRL] The Roots of Racial Profiling

2001-07-31 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? By Gene Callahan and William Anderson It is early in the morning, and the well-dressed young African-American man driving his Ford

Re: [CTRL] U.S. Aid To Israel Violates 1st Amendment

2001-08-06 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Violates the First Amendment nothing ... there is no Power provided the Congress To forcibly take the earnings of Americans and give them to *any* Foreign Government or any other 'charitable' endeavor. Regard$, --MJ I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Cons

[CTRL] Saddam Hussein is Right

2001-08-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Saddam Hussein is Right by Bill Barnwell Do you have to be a bloodthirsty bully to be a conservative? That's one of the prerequisites, if the rhetoric of many Republicans are taken seriously. My conservative credent

[CTRL] Siege At Sagle

2001-06-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Siege At Sagle by Jeff Elkins "Get the guns!" We don't know exactly what alerted 15-year-old Benjamin McGuckin. It could have been one of the family dogs, warning the boy when a jackboot broke a twig. Perhaps one o

Re: [CTRL] Government at work: US boom bypassed middle class

2001-08-20 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Again, TAXES, TAXES, TAXES. Will you EVER learn? Regard$, --MJ He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screed

Re: [CTRL] Fw: The Subversion of Education in America

2001-08-28 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- laural What gets to me is the separation of Church and State is a first Amendment right! MJ This is untrue. The First Amendment PLAINLY prohibits Congress from mak[ing] laws in regards to 5 items. Regard$, --MJ The Constitution wisely forbids Congress to make any law re

[CTRL] Children's drug is more potent than cocaine

2001-09-10 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Children's drug is more potent than cocaine Jean West The children's drug Ritalin has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine, a study has found. Using brain imaging, scientists have found that, in pill form

Re: [CTRL] The Contradictions of Capitalism

2001-07-04 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nessie Chanted Capitalism and free markets are inherently contradictory. MJ Bullshit. These two concepts are inherently linked. Nessie Chanted Capitalism can't exist in a free market because capitalism requires the state. MJ Bullshit. Once the STATE sticks it's nose int

[CTRL] A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto

2001-07-08 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto by John Keller Partially Educated The Communist Manifesto is one of those documents I was aware of, but had never taken the time to actually read. As a woefully undereduca

Re: [CTRL] Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted, Say Scientists

2001-07-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling,

[CTRL] Big Brother's New Prohibition

2001-07-13 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] BIG BROTHER'S NEW PROHIBITION Stephen A. Beck NONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR STATEMENTS ARE TRUE: But people think they are and that's the real crisis. "Last year, 24,000 nationwide lost their lives because o

Re: [CTRL] AP: NYT says Florida accepted flawed overseas ballots

2001-07-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Nessie News flash -- it doesn't matter who "won." Whoever it is, he's a puppet of the corporations who really rule us. The government is a front. MJ ROTFLMAO The Corporations are simply one of THOUSANDS of factions who the Pull-Peddling Politicians utilize to maintain

Re: [CTRL] Global Warming Much Worse Than Predicted

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL i

Re: [CTRL] [OT] Report: President Bush Has Lowest IQ ofallPresidentsofPast ...

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- thew just a quick note here george w bush was appointed, and not elected MJ Only some Religious Myrmidons chant such absurdity. thew are you saying th4e supreme court didn't appoint bush? MJ The Court has no such Power nor did they usurp such. Regard$, --MJ

Re: [CTRL] [OT] Report: President Bush Has LowestIQofallPresidentsofPast 50 Years

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- BB But consider, government IS big business, Joshua Yes. In a capitalist society where the wealth of the nation is transferred to private enterprises. It doesn't HAVE to be that way. MJ Not in reality, but we can pretend if it makes you feel better. BB an

Re: [CTRL] Agriculture After Global Warming

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Someone Asks Do you think that it's possible this entire "Global Warming" thing has been concocted to stampede the people into accepting serious international authority over their lives? Nessie chants We already have serious international authority over their lives.

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: How to Stop Bush Amnesty of 3 Million Illegal Aliens

2001-07-17 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Steve Wilson How about human rights? MJ What 'human rights'? One's like those outlined in the contradictory Declaration of Human Rights? Steve Wilson How about fair wages for everyone and not exploiting a person because hes an illegal facing shit jobs no one else

Re: [CTRL] Agriculture After Global Warming

2001-07-18 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- MJ Corporations -- a creation of Government -- does NOT possess legalized FORCE. Nessie (1.) Tell that to Wackenhut. MJ You PREACH your nonsense to 'Wackenhut'. Nessie (2.) Corporations own the government. Ergo, they control the poluce and military. If you

Re: [CTRL] How it's done: O-L-I-G-O-P-O-L-Y

2001-06-12 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Joshua ol[i[gop[o[ly n., pl. lies OLIG(O) + (MON)OPOLY control of a commodity or service in a given market by a small number of companies or suppliers This is the corporate model for the New World Economic Order. It is based on the successful models in

[CTRL] Disestablish the Cult of Liberalism

2001-06-15 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- ~~for educational purposes only~~ [Title 17 U.S.C. section 107] Disestablish the Cult of Liberalism A religion to be banned from public schools. Ann Coulter This week the Supreme Court upheld the right of religious groups to participate in the beautiful mosaic of afterschool

Re: [CTRL] FDR Unmasked

2001-06-26 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Carl Grow up for Pete sake. I am not an FDR fan in general. But, what he did vis a vis W.W.II was necessary. MJ Aaah that 20/20 hindsight. Regard$, --MJ America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of

Re: [CTRL] July 4th! The Birthday of America

2001-07-03 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- July 4th! The Birthday of America by David Barton Q.: What is your opinion of David Barton's book The Myth of Separation? A.: The real myth is that Mr. Barton is an historian. -- Gene Garman Regard$, --MJ The United States of

[CTRL] Reichstag Fires on Campus

2000-05-06 Thread M.A. Johnson
~~for educational purposes only~~ Reichstag Fires on Campus by William Anderson A recent racial incident at Iowa State University brought to light what has been a scandalous trend in U.S. higher education. For several days, a black male dental school student received numerous racist e-mails, and

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