drose wrote:
>
> David Buchanan wrote:
>
> >
> > Ever notice how Hitler's concentration camps, Stalin's Gulag and the
> > West's public schools are all based on the factory model. Murder,
> > oppression and education are all based on efficient production?
> >
>
> A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
>
> LOL!
Actually, David if you look closer, they are all based on the government
model.
Still giggling, albeit quietly.
Some more thoughts culled randomly from the net.
> To teach self-avowed "liberals'' that encouraging government to wield
> power for "nice'' purposes is potentially dangerous shouldn't be that
> difficult, but in practice it has proven almost impossible.
After all, if it's their pet causes which are being suppressed, they've
been the first to scream foul.
> As P.J. O'Rourke has put it, giving money and power to government is
> like giving booze and car keys to teenage boys.
> It is especially ironic that the government -- an institution that, as
> George Washington tried to warn us, is itself the embodiment of force
> and rules only by violence or the threat of violence -- should
> pretend concern about the effect of simulated violence
> on helpless and tender-minded youth.
> ...government can only be a natural predator on the liberty of every
> citizen, a cancerous and life-choking growth on the health and wellbeing
> of peaceful and productive society. If you want to reduce violence,
> reduce government. To ask government to reduce violence is to ask the
> impossible -- it can pretend to do so only by violent means. To stand
> aside and not complain while it practices extortion on yet another
> industry is the attitude of a natural slave.
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