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Re: driver's ed. is a joke
In article <3v675p$h69@khis_news.khis.kodak.com>,
Robert King <king@khis.com> wrote:
}In article 7gc@wanda.pond.com, russotto@wanda.pond.com () writes:
}
}
}>}>Basically, because the government gets to use large men with guns and
}>}>clubs to enforce its edicts, derives all its money by taking it under
}>}>the threat of sending large men with guns and clubs after those who
}>}>don't pay, and is answerable only to itself.
}>}
}>} Ah! So you're a cynic, and a fatalist! Have you ever voted? Ever
}>}heard of it?
}>
}>Done it. Those who I vote for never win. I get one vote in several
}>million in a few races, and I usually can't stand ANY of the
}>candidates.
}
} Then why not run yourself? Or get involved in a PAC? Or write
}letters to the editor, or to those in power (now there's a radical
}thought!)
Letters to those in power get filed with a form letter replay.
Letters to the editor-- I've written a few, but they are about as
effective as posts on Usenet at doing anything. Running myself or
getting involved in a PAC just makes me a cog in the wheel-- were I
ever to attain a position of real power, I'd have already been
co-opted by the system and I'd support the status quo.
}> Voting is a placebo -- if it really changed anything, it would
}>be illegal.
} There's the cynic talking again. Don't bitch about somthing until
}you've TRIED to change it.
Pushing the system is ignored, unless you push hard enough to get
stomped on. This is what I've learned dealing with systems without
armed enforcement agents. I don't care to confirm it with systems
WITH armed enforcement agents.
}>}>"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
}>}>of justice is no virtue."
}>}
}>} Maybe you should live by your tagline...
}>
}>Well, I've never been accused of being a moderate. What do you
}>suggest I do to live by my tagline, burn down the MVA?
}
} At least then you'd be DOING SOMTHING. (Not that I'm advocating THAT,
}of course!)
I do DO something. But I don't try to change the system -- I believe
that to be futile. I simply ignore it when I disagree with it and
think I can get away with it. This, of course, makes me a common
criminal. But I'd rather be a common criminal doing 85mph than
someone trying to change the system through legal means doing 55mph
(or 65mph) until (unless) I succeed.
--
Matthew T. Russotto russotto@pond.com russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."
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