CDR: Re: Parties

[Kevin Elliott]

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
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Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott 
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