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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: US and USSR (was: Re: USSR ICC (was: Information on the ICC))
Summary: Comments
Message-ID: <2975@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 2 Feb 89 18:47:30 GMT
References: <10127@well.UUCP> <1315@orion.cf.uci.edu> <810@afit-ab.arpa> <892@afit-ab.arpa>
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In article <892@afit-ab.arpa>,  William A. Bralick writes:

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>Their system is based on the subjugation of the individual 
> to the state, ours is based on the subjugation of the state to the
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> individual. 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Try telling that to the IRS/S, the DEA, etc., ad nauseum.  Things have
gotten so bad that, a few years ago, HEW/HHS tried to suppress *a
board game* because it made fun of welfare and civil service!  We
should remind the folks in Washington about the way our system
is *supposed* to operate.


 Lenin said that it is A.O.K. to lie, cheat, steal, and murder
> to advance to cause of world socialism.  Washington said avoid foreign
> entanglements. 

Yes, he did.  And we've been ignoring that advice ever since.  The
Monroe Doctrine is a prime example.  Various invasions of our 
neighbors and involvement in the affairs of others are more examples.
One can be fervently anti-Communist (as I am) and still not be
pro-interventionist.  Let's try ending Federal aid to the Soviet
bloc and see how big of a crimp that puts into the imperialist
aims of Moscow et alia.


>Our system is morally superior to theirs.

True, but we keep getting closer to theirs by expanding the size of
our government.  And one of the biggest impeti (impetuses?) behind
expansion of Government power is always war or "national security".
Check the explosions of Government power here during the War Between
The States and the two World Wars.  Believe me, tax resisters and
draft resisters have more in common than they might be willing to
believe. 

BTW, I understand a career military man studying our defense needs
has come out in favor of abolishing both the Air Force and the
Marine Corps.  Says planes are giving way to missiles, and missiles
can be fired just as well by folks wearing green as by those wearing blue;
also that amphibious landings are not going to be all that common
in the years ahead.  Something to consider when drawing up
our defense budget.  Long live zero-based budgeting!


Jeff Daiell
(opinions my own, until taxed away)




INDEPENDENCE FOR TEXAS!



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