Wine Politics Again!

Kent Crispin kent at songbird.com
Tue May 20 23:29:33 PDT 1997


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.

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