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Re: An interesting URL from my favorite newspaper
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:33:28 GMT
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On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:07:42 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> Read it, then ask yourself, were the founding fathers such fools, or is
Hey, you said it, I didn't ;)
> there something fundamentally different about men (and the governments
> they construct) now that we're willing to trust government when they did
> not?
Basically, we no longer live in a Dark Age frontier anymore?
> I'm not convinced anything is different now. I trust the average joe to
> be good but the average politician to be venal.
Think about _that_ for a while.
> Happy 4th of July. Think about why it's a holiday while you're
> barbecueing.
Happy Good Riddance day, as a British friend of mine used to say... ;)
Jasper
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