On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 14:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:19:10PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Personally, I think the whole federal government system is corrupted and > > bloated and it needs to be totally redone from scratch. Unfortunately, I'm > > prolly looking at this like a hacker. :( > > The Federal government at least has the virtue of being accountable to > the public (at least in theory). And they are the only level of > government that is big enough not to be pushed around by private power > (corporations). Private power is the part of the equation that we're not > supposed to pay attention to. Corporations are organized to generate > profit for stockholders and are obviously not accountable to the public. > > This is not to say that the Federal government in the U.S. is ok. It has > lots of problems. But the main reason that the media are against the > Federal government is because it is potentially by and for the people. > For the past 50 years the public relations industry has been working > hard to make the federal government look bad (think about the X-files,
The gov't has been doing a good enough job on it's own, making it- self look bad. Face it: Madison Ave didn't invent Waco and Ruby Ridge, nor spying on MLKjr, nor snail darters or spotted owls, or NASA (bureaucrats and the shuttle accidents) or the Tea-pot Dome, or a myriad of other incidents. (This sig block is pretty appropriate for the current thread.) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
