-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 07 Apr 1996, jim bell wrote: [article snipped]

Articles such as this are interesting because they appear to be written without any illusion that the interests of governments are anything other than just that, interests of governments. They are NOT the interests of the average citizen.

Absolutly, and it seems that more and more thinking people are realizing this, as for the non-thinking ones, well we are better off without them, the only thing they contribute are problems Debate works to a point, but there comes a point and time where all that can be said, has been said, and we are past that point. Personally, I love national insecurity such as terrorist attacks and random bombings, wish there were more of them by more people. What they do is sow fear, instensify camps, and pit people against each other. Goverments are use to wars, where there are large, well-defined groups assult one another, they have huge problems dealing with small groups of people attack it or each other. That is what will eventually cause it to collapes, which is a good thing. For those who say that such an event would be catostrophic, that is a myth, I worked with someone from Berut a few years ago, when the goverment there collapesed. He said other than the perpetual mortor fire, and speratic bombings, life went on as usuall. People got up and went to work, people bought and sold, etc. From a microsopic scale, nothing had changed, it was only if you looked at the bigger picture that things were different, and quite frankly, those types of things do not effect us individually. I do not need an x trillion dollar economy to continue living at my standard of living, most of us on this list do not, the only people that benifit are the power brokers and the dumb, weak, and stupid. I have nothing against charity(that's what taxes amount to), but when charity reaches 50%+ of my income, and starts to erode my freedom, well now it's a problem. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAwUBMWkWWUUffSIjnthhAQHEiQP/Sp5+UfCFGmvEO/9nRFBLXBm9haPiJC/y oVCoKQi/jeCkXy1HaPjrrObFkV0fvRsHxk5GvHXfX9sIkFi/i9mrGafpXFUuRfkP qua2wYp91Omh39QptHThGgEKl0sdKBzw+/9uHCqwUyViqoZZBO7Y7kUGffT9XL9m 13VTjMTyFz4= =e+UM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Regards, Michael Peponis PGP Key Available from MIT KeyServer