-- On 28 Aug 2001, at 7:13, Jim Choate wrote:
What makes you think that new regime who used your tool to take over won't then shoot you and take 'your profits'. By participating you may in fact be signing your own death warrant.
All the liberty that there is in the world today results from the Dutch revolt, the Glorious Revolution, and the American Revolution. No oppressive regimes, with the exception of the Chinese, were produced by revolution. Every successful revolution has been a major step forward for human liberty (the Russian communist revolution was not a revolution, but merely a coup by a little conspiracy. Same for the Sandinista revolution). Even in revolutions that failed, like the french, were the old system was swiftly restored by Napoleon, the power of the old regime was fatally undermined. The outcome of the recent revolutions in Somalia and Ethiopia may be piss poor by Western standards, but compared to the rest of Africa they are pretty good, and compared to the previous regimes, they are wonderful. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG bstOJvcE7yZ9wE8/TgMBfXDE6jExhrBCsGAb/NnK 4Y74xyXZqu/wy4YGqo28RkMUFEWDhUUMk7L9BBPRe