From: Jonathan Standley (standley@rcn.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 07:41:49 MST
Samantha,
this idea you correctly identify as dangerous cannot be stopped at this
point in time, barring armed conflict. The only way to avoid the grasp of
the world's govt's is to hide from them.
imo, this is one of several uber-important reasons that humanity needs to
get established off-planet, preferably in the asteroid belt and/or oort
cloud, where resources are plentiful and bothering someone takes inordinate
amounts of effort
> What really needs to be stopped is the very idea, any legitimacy
> granted at all to the idea that it is a reasonable function of
> government, within the purview of government to wield any such
> broad powers. As long as it is excepted as legitimate there
> will always be the danger of such irresponsible massive blows.
> Do not give as fickle and dangerous a Beast as government this
> kind of power. Chain it and quickly. How? There's the rub.
>
> - samantha
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