🚀 go-pugleaf

but don't worry.   the dems will fix it now that they're in power.

<tr2267@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> The current GOP government is the biggest, most massively powerful and
> dangerous government in American history, after conning voters into 
> thinking
> they were voting for "limited government" and "smaller government". 
> Bush's
> government and the rubberstamp Congress has given itself the power to 
> arrest
> people, hold them forever without trial, torture them forever -- and all 
> of
> this is perfectly legal.  Of course none of it is constitutional, but that 
> no
> longer matters because the GOP has been systematically destroying the 
> checks
> and balances of government set up by America's founding fathers.  The kind 
> of
> government behaviour that would have been unthinkable from 1792-2000 is 
> now
> barely even reported in the media.  The bigger picture is that the US is
> currently drifting further and further towards a dysfunctional, corrupt 
> 3rd
> world type government.
>
> Republican Party insiders like Tom Delay, Carl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Ralph 
> Reed,
> etc set up a vast money laundering system that would be the awe of drug 
> lords
> and mafia kingpins.  This system for the most part still exists and its
> purpose is to both reward themselves, their friends, and families with
> money and wealth, and perpetuate the GOP and this system in power forever.
>
> Many people didn't realize it at first but it is becoming clear now that 
> the
> onslaught of corruption in government over the last decade is not just the
> product of electing politicians with no ethics and too much power, it is a
> natural political consequence of electing politicions with a contempt for
> government.  The Republican Party created in the real world conditions
> to match their propaganda depictions of a dysfunctional government.
>
> There are of course groups in the world that have worse intentions than 
> the
> GOP, but the Republican Party is the one and only organization in the 
> world
> powerful enough to destory America, they seem to be doing a good job of 
> it, and
> that's why they scare me much more than anyone else does.  You wouldn't 
> know
> this by turning on your TV but there are dozens of things statistically 
> more
> likely to kill Americans than terrorism -- among them is being struck by
> lightning.
>
>
>>
>>> I carefully read the entire proposed rule at:
>>>
>>http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064801a110e&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf
>>>
>>> and while the proposed rule 'could' be misused in an arbitrary
>>> fashion, the goal of the rule is to catch terrorists at the last
>>> moment. You have to weight that into the equation.
>>
>>1)  Good intentions aren't enough.  Laws are *guaranteed* to be abused
>>at some point, so they have to be written defensively.  Otherwise we'd
>>just annoint a king and say "use your best judgement."
>>
>>2)  It's not worth it.  Just like I don't have bars over my windows,
>>because it isn't worth it.
>