From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 25 2005 - 12:07:51 BST
> [Case]
> What is shameful is that we have never learned from our mistakes.
LIke what?
> Have you ever heard of the Ghost Dance?
No. Is it a rock group?
> [Case]
> I guess the point is they don't have to do very much for you to favor
> killing them.
All they have to do is go around blowing up people.
> >[Platt}
> > The administration and the rest of the Western world were being honest in
> > their belief Saddam had WMD.
>
> [Case]
> Lordy, Lordy you are naive.
So everybody lied? Another grand conspiracy?.
> > [Platt]
> > I favor protecting our economic interests when necessary.
>
> [Case]
> Is that part of the free market thing?
It's part of the survival thing.
> > [Case]
> >> As for the need to huddle around a campfire, the only
> >> reason we are in this situation is that for at least 30 years we have
> >> ignored the fact that we were dependant on a resource that isn't our. We
> >> have done nothing to reduce our dependence. It is this willful neglect
> >> that that puts us in dire straits today. Who do you think is responsible
> >> for this?
> > [Platt]
> > The environmental wackos. We have plenty of oil here and in Alaska, not
> > to mention coal.
>
> [Case]
> That is frighteningly out of touch with reality, dude. Especially since it
> is nonsense like that that has put us in the situation we are in right now.
No, you're out of touch. So there.
> > [Case]
> >> I also notice you contine to to dodge the issue of value. I find this
> >> odd.
> > [Plat]
> > Be specific.
>
> [Case]
> I have said specifically several times that the economic system you favor
> reduces all Value to money. And that that is the problem with it. Do you
> agree with that and if not how are other Values given expression in your
> system?
What economic system do you think we should adopt? Christian-based
communism perhaps?
Platt
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