17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 04:46:08PM +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote:
government is its own end: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. hasn't changed yet in history. even the greats, Solomon, David, etc. fell prey to the siren song of power; why should far more inferior men like Bubba, who has absolutely nothing to his credit except deceit, be exempt?
"Power corrupts..." isn't a property of governments, it is a property of individual human beings. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html