🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3b7fd3c5.3129934@netnews.voicenet.com>,
 mgreene@voicenet.removethis.com (m greene) wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 00:13:31 GMT, Robert Cote <techscan@gte.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <3ad744d285daedc707ac81eb4465d08d@xganon.com>,
> > xganon <nobody@xganon.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The true benefit of the Bus Riders Union is that it empowers people, be 
> >> they 
> >> red or yellow, black or white, male or female, straight or gay.
> >> 
> >> People! Let's join together and take on the pigs that run our transit 
> >> companies! I dare each and everyone of you to speak up and express your 
> >> concnerns over the wasted money spent on subways and trains! Now is the 
> >> time 
> >> for action! Now is the time for victory! We shall overcome!
> >
> >Snort, snort, grunt, grunt.  A dare from an anonymous poster.  The 
> >small amount of humor has worn off.
> 
> 	You do have to admit, though, that if it were up to the BRU,
> you can forgey ANY highway improvements, never mind any rail.  

I hadn't thought about that.  Brand new buses sporting multilanguage 
signage driving along decaying potholed streets

> I'd guess that Eric and company haven't heard that while Marxism 
> may sound great in theory, it goes against the American ethos of 
> people wanting to be in charge of their own fate, and, if need be, 
> to hell with someone telling them otherwise.  

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is 
the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.--William Pitt, 1783

> People will want to 
> do what they perceive is best for them, not what someone tells them 
> is best for them.

That harkens back to the recent discussion about the T in MTA not 
really standing for Transportation anymore.  

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his 
own way.--Robert Frost, 1935

> 	Of course, I could be wrong(with apologies to Dennis Miller).

My biggest fear is that the extremeism of the BRU is serving to make 
those merely radical socialist and statist factions look reasonable by 
comparison.  

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's just the 
opposite.--John Kenneth Galbraith