At 16:52 -0600 10/30/00, Jim Choate wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, A. Melon wrote: The acceptance by the rank and file of Lincoln's 'fundamental law of nations'. This has laid the basic groundwork for the ever increasing 'federalism' (and as a consequence socialism/fascism).
Lincoln's fundamental law of nations?
An increase in technology that has placed the ability to harm a large group of poeple in the hands of the individual like no previous time in history.
*sigh*. I'm personally of the opinion that the total amount of damage the human race has been able to do to itself as a percentage of the population has remained essentially constant. Let me rephrase that... The total amount of damage the human race is doing to itself as a percentage of the population has remained constant. Any increase in destructive potential has been met with a commensurate increase in population and a decline in our willingness to use those tools. We may be able to kill millions today but 10,000 years ago that wasn't much less than the world population. -- "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -- Justice William O. Douglas ____________________________________________________________________ Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott <mailto:kelliott@mac.com> ICQ#23758827