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tsig
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Message 27 of 80 (184615)
02-11-2005 3:09 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by TheLiteralist
02-10-2005 4:17 AM


Re: we're easily fooled is the point
The point, if people will choose to discuss this topic, will eventually be, not taxes so much, but the amazing degree (and how easily) to which we, the public, can be fooled by propaganda when we trust, unquestioningly, those who appear to have "authority".
People who can send me to jail have authority, no question about it.

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tsig
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Message 32 of 80 (184676)
02-12-2005 1:12 AM
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02-11-2005 11:40 PM


Re: we're easily fooled is the point
Of course, if you live in some totalitarian country that doesn't have a Constitution like ours, well that's a different story, but this government is BY, OF and FOR the PEOPLE (or so I thought).
people go to jail all the time for tax evasion.

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tsig
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Message 35 of 80 (184685)
02-12-2005 6:38 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by crashfrog
02-12-2005 1:45 AM


Heh, not especially, no. In fact I couldn't believe my ears when I first heard of his plan. Homeland Security? Wasn't it Hitler who first coined that term, "Homeland"? Isn't that how all those dystopian-future science fiction novels start? With a shadowy government organization called "homeland security"?
Could he have picked a name with more totalitarian overtones? I doubt it
Now you know why I quit reading sci-fi, it all started happening, exept for the ones were there was free sex.
Wev'e had shadowy government agencies since WWII, CIA, NSA the list is endless.
We never seem to never get off a war footing. WWII, cold war, korean war, vietnam war, ect ect ect.
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