-- On 27 Aug 2001, at 23:22, Aimee Farr wrote:
Considering the incredibly bad timing of this discussion in light of world events, I don't see how you could call ME a provocateur. My jibe was good-natured. You keep posting the equivalent of classified ads. I know who wants this shit now, and it's not "little bad men."
The main world events that I have noticed is that President Bush has deballed the world gun control treaty, in part because it would hinder aid to revolutionary movements that have interests in common with the US, and that Bush is making unkind noises about the world treaty against tax havens and financial secrecy, in part because it would give the EEC too much control over international money flows. The state has always been repressive -- and different states have always disagreed strongly over what needs to be repressed. In 1376 the Holy Roman Church declared itself supreme in all matters of thought, and declared that any thinking not first approved and authorized in advanced by the church, and conducted in proper church channels, was heresy and/or witchcraft punishable by burning at the stake. However, under the original treaty between Pope and holy roman empire, any such burnings required both the Pope's judges and the King's goons (oversimplification, but that is essense of it). Since Pope and King were usually trying to kill each other, freedom survived, though not easily. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ulrWnHbYmYLr1ALq5yaAlnuwr5SRSzH8gTSgtzmj 4dYLsf/2UwXTPBn4+ZQRxpjVyJJWsQWAYxEuZEWiN