Today's Founder Quote:
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best
state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for
when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we
might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by
reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
--Thomas Paine
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Socialism aims to eliminate competitive spirit in Education & Capitalism. No
victory, no fame, no profit, no wealth, only consensus, mediocrity and
servitude. Liberalism and Socialism aim to reduce the competitive nature of
man, create dependence of Government and thus furnish the means by which we
suffer.
CB
"The first act of man, when he looked around and saw himself a creature
which he did not make, and a world furnished for his reception, must have
been devotion, and devotion must ever continue sacred to every individual
man, as it appears right to him; and governments do mischief by
interfering."
--Thomas Paine
Today's Founder Quote:
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be
their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring
it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."
- James Madison (Fourth President of the United States)
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/news/070803/0708sept11.html
WASHINGTON— Leaders of the federal commission examining how al Qaeda
pulled off the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks warned Tuesday that their
investigation is stymied by a lack of cooperation from government agencies
and that they could miss their deadline.
The commission is still waiting for key documents and briefings from the
White House and federal agencies some six months after Congress ordered the
commission to conduct an exhaustive review of how the federal government
failed to detect al-Qaida's impending attacks on New York and Washington.
"Time is slipping by," said Thomas H. Kean, the chairman of the commission
and former Republican governor of New Jersey. "Every day lost complicates
our work. Extensive and prompt cooperation from the U.S. government ...
is absolutely essential."
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Rich Travsky wrote:
> Today's Founder Quote:
> "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,
Now that's wishful thinking on Madison's part. He wouldn't be very happy
about the ignorance some people show in this forum.
> and a people who mean to be
> their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
> A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring
> it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."
> - James Madison (Fourth President of the United States)
From "Letter to W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822. Taken from Introduction
(Section II) of A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act
and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records formatted by the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communication
Commission."
