Well, actually, you're wrong, in those two cases. A quick review of history
will reveal that neither found his way to power that way. However, leaders like
George-I, a mental midget by comparison with his predecessor Ronald R, Billary,
and George-II, AKA DUBYA, came to power from the total lack of responsibility
of the voting public. You don't suppose they're getting what they deserve?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vance Dereksen" <vance(a)ikickass.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)
This is the kind of mentality that allowed demagogues like Hitler and
Stalin to flourish.
(I didn't think you were serious, but I still had to respond.)
Peace... Sridhar
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> > Darn right, overpopulation is at the root of most of our problems. And
what
> > are we going to do about it?
>
> Ah, the solutions to that are very simple, and would result in
> more land being available for future generations:
>
> 1. Implement a child tax for people with more than two children and
> stop giving people tax breaks for having children. Give people tax
> breaks for not having children.
> 2. Do away with religions dogma that makes people believe that it's ok
> to go forth and multiply like rabits, flies, etc.
> 3. Intitute a ban on the building of new houses, unless for the purpose of
> replacement. Ban the building of business parks and other such
commercial
development
that's destroying the woodlands and farms that we have left.
Halt all new road construction.
4. Reduce immigration by at least 95 percent.
5. Spay and geld all illegal immigrants; then send them back home.
and...
6. Have a revolution and then elect me to be the king. If elected, I
promise that hacking shall be encouraged and promoted, and that PERQs,
PDP-11/45s --- or at least blinken-light equipped, faster,
and modern pseudo-equivalents of them, valved radios, audio amplifiers
and large automobiles shall be manufactured in plentiful supply.
...and in addition, I'll not tax farm land. :-)