--===============0445636202== Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="big5"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There are political optimists and political pessimists. I guess it is human nature. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rolf" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Physics denies official 9/11 report. > What amazes me, and this is not meant to be a snide comment at all.... > is that people expect the government (any government) to be open and > honest (caveat: I live in Canada, not the US, but politics is > fundamentally the same here). > > Why are people surprised that the real facts are different to what was > presented as fact before? The whole campaigning, electing, lobbying, and > other political processes are predominantly based on at the best times > compromise, and at the worst times manipulation. The conduct required > from a political candidate to get elected is the exact conduct that we > don't want in elected politicians ... yet, it should come as no surprise > that once elected, politicians don't change. > > In other words, political campaigns are based on spite, defamatory > conduct, manipulation of information, lying, deception, making > impossible promises, and general arrogance. Yet, we expect politicians > to become honest, principled, and "open" once they are elected. > > Anyone who is surprised at the recent revelation of the "facts" should > have their voting rights removed.... they simply do not know enough > about politics to have the right to vote. Every, and I mean absolutely > every single decision made by a politician has some hidden agenda, and > it should be assumed that not all the facts that the politicians knew > will be revealed for the public to comprehend. > > In other words, the political system is designed to draw the most > deceptive people to powerful positions, and leopards can not change > their spots. > > The only thing that makes me content with the poor political systems > currently implemented is that I can not think of a different system that > would have consistently better results. > > Rolf > > Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >> James Newtons Massmind wrote: >> >> >>> http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#17 >>> >> >> While looking around on the projectcensored.org site, I found something >> else. >> >> >> >>> But the 9/11 "attack" did move the nation to support the invasion of >>> Iraq by >>> the USA, >>> >> >> Not only that. It also did move the nation to support the invasion of >> Afghanistan. Yet: >> >> On : >> >> ------------------------ >> No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11 >> Researched by Morgan Ulery >> >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/565 - Release Date: 12/2/2006 --===============0445636202== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --===============0445636202==--