From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 04 2005 - 15:30:47 BST
Ian:
> Nice one Mark (Maxwell)
Interesting. A mindset rallying to support the idea of punishing
dissenters while diverting attention from the original challenge.
> Actually, I'm with Platt on one thing - if a totalitarian government,
> ordering an evacuation is the best alternative, I'm not convinced.
A breath of common sense.
> What it does show for me is the US ignorance (skilled incompetence -
> hypocrisy in other words) of the social issues it has stored up, in
> its surprise and delay at reacting to them.
What "social issues?"
> It's not that the US
> government is incapable of organising a piss-up in a brewery, but that it
> chose not to. As Mark says, the "holiday is over" the Bush administration
> (and Platt) are fair game on this one I'm afraid. What do you value Mr Bush
> ?
Ah yes. Here comes the scapegoating. It's all the fault of conservatives.
No one else is to blame, least of all our caretaker government whose
broken levies brought disaster.
> It's another cloud with a silver lining - a dynamic disaster with a
> potentially net positive outcome, who knows ? (For me this is the way
> in which DQ can be said always to be progressive - every problem is an
> "opportunity". In the evolutiuonary model, every mutation is random, but
> each holds the opportunity for progress up the MoQ layers.)
Right on. Chances are, however, it will result in a step backward to
strengthen the embrace the Giant.
Platt
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