The system that rewards non-production will get non-production. In a "democratic" society, it takes about 200 years for the non-producers to figure out how to steal from the producers at the voting booth. In the process, governments take more and more from the people and give them less and less in exchange. That fits my definition of theft pretty well. People who believe that any government could stand for truth and/or justice is either an idiot or brainwashed or both. Rich BTW: The United States lost its sovereignty, officially, in 1933 through international bankruptcy. By assigning the bankruptcy to the people (uncontested), the people have lost their sovereignty and their uninalienable rights under the Constitution (instead we get our _CIVIL_ rights under the 14th Amendment as our remedy). We operate under Public Policy (a bankruptcy term) and The War Powers Act of 1933 (never repealed). The checks and balances of the three branches of government are set aside through Executive Orders and our courts which operate under Admiralty Law (as opposed to Common Law). The Federal Government, under compact with the states, has acquired jurisdiction within the states (which was never supposed to happen - it was only to have jurisdiction over the territories) which resulted in the states losing their sovereignty. So Enter Andy Kunz who believes that private/home schooling will save the day and that may very well be true, but we had better take a closer look at the school books before we think this will produce a better result. At 11:37 AM 5/15/98 -0700, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Morgan Olsson >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 10:31 AM >Subject: Re: India's N-test (fwd) > > >>At 18:57 1998-05-14 -0400, you wrote: >>>The US has to do the job that the UN was supposed to do. Now that the UN >>>is dying, somebody must stand for Truth and Justice. >> >>Well, the UN is dying because some countries, especially US, do not pay >>their shared costs (could not remember the right word now), and general >>lack of interest from some countries. > >How easy would you find it feeding the mouth that bites you? The US >provides the soil and the building for the United Nations, who then >collectively has the gall to speak ill of and make demands upon that >sovereign nation as if they were better than it! >