Toner cartridge for Kerry office

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:17:54PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2004, at 20:53, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> >By all appearances, he's nothing but a
> >power-hungry war-mongering lunatic with an IQ of 67 ... Secret 
> >societies don't need to be sinister, but secrecy + power have
> >always seemed a little bit that way to me...
> 
> Wait, is he an idiot or an evil mastermind?  Outside of Dr. Evil you 
> usually have to be brilliant, if evil, to orchestrate a world-wide 
> secret conspiracy.

Who said GW is orchestrating anything?  ;-)  More likely, his much
smarter buddies in S&B are pulling his strings... (Note the lack of a
smiley.)

> >Politics and power
> >should be accessible for public scrutiny in any government that wants
> >to label itself "democracy" IMO.
> 
> Except we're a Republic, weakened by direct-election of senators and an 
> income tax, currently for sale to corporate interests so that 
> politicians can pay for media advertising to manipulate the votes of an 
> uneducated populous.

I know... but the politicians never say that, because they want you to
think you have more power than you do to influence things.  It makes
the population happier, and easier to control.  There's a reason that
political science programs teach Machiavelli...

Anyway, this is not the place for these discussions, so I'll bow out
now.  :)

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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