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Re: [PLUG] Look what the Government wants now
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Depressingly good point.
I just listened to a little black girl's reflections upon the movie,
"Glory" as corny, and she was one of the brighter bulbs in my class.
"But you don't know what you got 'til it's gone,
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
For what it's worth, "Glory" demonstrates all of those bases of what my
generation learned was manhood. Denzel Washington's character being
whipped for a discipline offense with a stoic indifference to the pain
would have been considered the pentultimate of proper response. And I
could see the drill instructor torturing the four eyed geek even as I was
lucky and in my unit was the fat slob.
Sorry to waste bandwidth on something that amounts to a coincidence.
bs
On 20 Dec 2002, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:38, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> > This morning while reading the paper I was alerted to this article in
> > the NY Times.
> >
> > Is this a good thing or just Big Brother invading your space?
> >
>
> Well, I guess it depends on whether or not you want to live in a country
> where the only thing you have to fear is your government.
>
> The Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi used to justify the huge fees he charged the
> Beatles and other rock stars of the time, while preaching the evil of
> materiality, by saying that people don't value the things that they have
> gotten cheaply and easily. I guess freedom has been so cheap and easy
> for most Americans that they take it for granted and attach little value
> to it. I wonder what those 18th century, anti-government radicals with
> slogans like, "Give me liberty or give me death." would think of the way
> today's Americans are willing to squander the freedom for which they
> sacrificed their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to achieve.
>
>
> --
> Arthur S. Alexion <arthur@alexion.com>
> Arthur S. Alexion LLC
>
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