-=> RICHARD WEBB wrote to BOB KLAHN <=-

 RW> HI Bob,
 RW> SOrry 'bout that, had to exit reader/editor to run a ham
 RW> radio net ...
 RW> so,

 RW> following up a message from Richard Webb to BOB KLAHN:

 BK>>  Once America was a nation that celebrated knowledge and science.

 BK>>  Now America is a nation where right wing lies and hate are the
 BK>> nationl currency of debate.

 RW> THey're much easier, dumb down the populace, sell 'em
 RW> anything.

 BK>>  Enjoy your prison.

 RW> And this surprises you how?

 BK>  Saddens, not surprises.

 RW> Doesn't do either for me, angers me.  We don't teach kids
 RW> civics anymore, we just keep dumbing it down and dumbing it
 RW> own, but the big fascists who really have a lot to gain like a
 RW> dumbed down populace.

 RW> YEs they do, which is why we can't discuss climate change,

I recall Hanson with NASA being gagged.

 RW> our scientists are discouraged from pursuing stem cell
 RW> research that could save lives. 

Allow cripples a chance to walk again and give a life back 
to badly wounded veterans.

 RW> tO hell with the diabetics
 RW> and people with immune system deficiencies who might be
 RW> helped, and therefore become productive again.  REal science is
 RW> inconvenient, it might actually improve life on this
 RW> planet, but there's not enough return on it to fatten the
 RW> wallets of the parasites in WAll street, etc.

 RW> Most of these pieces of human garbage would discount and
 RW> ridicule the scientists who put the toys they now enjoy in
 RW> their hands.  They have no clue whatsoever what gave them
 RW> their little satellite dish and their fifty-seven channels
 RW> of nothin' on.

 RW> OF course, they're discouraged from even contemplating how
 RW> it is they have all these toys.  RUpert and the wall street
 RW> types can use the great technological advances of yesterday
 RW> to dumb down and control the masses of American sheeple.

Don't hold back Richard, tell us what you really think ;-)
Saves me from saying it.

 RW> What was once the greatest country on earth is no longer a
 RW> bastion of freedom and a beacon of hope.  Screw hope and
 RW> freedom, there's not enough money in it.
 RW> But, to make sure that hope and freedom go by the boards we
 RW> have to discount and marginalize true culture as well.
 RW> Music and art, screw them too.  WE've caused there to be a
 RW> fight between the ignorant "we want it all for free" folks
 RW> and the creators who should expect to get paid for their
 RW> work.

 RW> Sometimes I thank god I'm already on the down side of the
 RW> slippery slope, at least I won't get to see the worst of
 RW> what the fascists and their dumbed down masses will create.
 RW> I am truly sorry I left offspring behind to be part of it however.

 RW> I'll stand by that last remark.

 RW> Regards,
 RW>            Richard
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