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   XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Jun 10, 12:16 pm, Harold Burton  wrote:   
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   >  "His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"   
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   > > On Jun 10, 9:33 am, BeamMeUpScotty   
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   > > > On 6/10/2013 9:21 AM, Yoorg...@Jurgis.net wrote:   
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   > > > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 20:20:09 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the Wise   
   > > > > TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"    
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   > > > >> Democracy to me though is having CHOICES, real choices. Being a nation   
   > > > >> of consumers with a bipartisan political system is rather irrelevant.   
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   > > > > You left out----"Sane" choices.   
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   > > > > Unrestricted wealth, power and "Freedom" are the mixture that produced   
   > > > > the worst of times in this (and other) countries.   
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   > > > FREEDOM doesn't guarantee you good times.....   
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   > > > Neither does Socialist totalitarianism, but freedom during bad times is   
   > > > better than totalitarianism in good times.   
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   > > "Freedom" to sit in a cage, drive a cage, get fat, get sick and NOT   
   > > have health insurance is rather a poor record for "democracy."   
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   > > I hear the government in China actively seeks feedback from the   
   > > people. It seems they worry more about revolution than our own elites.   
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   > They have good reason to.   
      
   Then is REVOLUTION --or the threat of revolution-- the magic word that   
   makes good things happen?   
      
   I use such word where the Christians use "Armageddon."   
      
   Armageddon is far more destructive than revolution, I hear.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)