[MacDV] Past contributor

[Art Amolsch]

Yeah, but what do you really think, Lené?  :-)

Recall that from time-to-time idiocy and/or amnesia overtakes
the populace, but eventually the Republic has righted itself.
The driving force behind the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution in 1919 (Prohibition) was the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, believers (or should that be
"Believers"?) all. We only lived with that idiocy until
the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th in 1933. Both
Amendments required approval of 3/4ths of the states.

In other words, there's hope. The Enlightenment hasn't
been repealed yet, although I agree that the signs are
worrisome. The irony is that the technology those of
us on this list use everyday is a direct result of the
Enlightenment -- the Age of Reason -- and has nothing
to do with Faith; other than faith that the electricity
won't go out before we finish our work.
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On Nov 3, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Lene Wangmo wrote:
> Lan,
>
> I'm sure you're well aware that Bush didn't sign the ban on assault 
> weapons
> (only prez not to do so) against the wishes of ALL police departments. 
>  What
> Trailer trash dittohead militia do you think he was arming here?  To 
> serve
> what purpose?  I'd say Machiavellian-wickedness-hisself-Rove is giving
> Crisco Ashcroft some domestic backwoods-troops armed to the gills to 
> put
> down any domestic dissent that might fire up during their next 4 years 
> of
> blatant Fascism.  Impoverish the states, bankrupt the treasury, no 
> jobs or
> educational opportunity--hence jobs in military to populate the
> military/industrial complex, increase in crime, increase in 
> chaos--sure way
> to lay out reasons for total police state policies--not to mention the
> profit component to stuffing privatized prisons full of slave laborers 
> who
> will make the widgets of some corporation for 13 cents an hour.   We 
> are
> America The Beautiful No More.   We are America the Usuruped by the
> Neocon Imperialism of a fascist regime frothing up homophobic, 
> xenophobic,
> misanthropic, uneducated flat-earth-fundamentalist idiots, into endless
> war frenzy to enrich the oil barons and their crony war profiteering
> corporations.
>
> Lené
> (a once extremely proud American who is now vastly ashamed that our
> population is so flagrantly ignorant and therefore prone to this blind
> embrace of fascism)
>
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