Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: check out Keith Wessel's photographs
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:36:49 -0600
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On Mar 12, 2011, at 12:14 PM, FRANK DERNIE wrote:

> Without a strong but fair system of government we go part way back to the 
> dark 
> ages where a tiny number of people with power own everything and everyone 
> else 
> is left grovelling in the sh1t.

I sincerely believe that we (US of A) have a strong system of government.
We have steadily worked at using that strength to also make it fair (however 
imperfectly).
Yet at this moment we find ourselves standing at a point in history
where we may very well lose the fair part.

President Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of the 
military-industrial-complex.
I don't think he could have even imagined what has occurred in the last 50 
years;
It appears to me that our governments are currently being run by 
Mega-Corporations
which care not a bit for the "common good" or sustainable "ecosystems."

> Over here these ar*eholes gave themselves titles, Kings, Lords and so 
> forth.

Sadly - now we can't even see those who actually pull the strings and put 
their puppets in power.

> It seems astonishing that a government of an 
> advanced country with an apparently superb system of education has managed 
> to 
> have a system which seems to have ended up like this.

The mass of so-called common people will test the veracity of their systems.
We can observe this going on all around the globe at this moment.

> Many seem to object in principle to strong government but this must be 
> what they 
> have been told not anything supported by evidence.

It is nothing more than a false talking point;
put forth by those who hold the reigns of wealth and power;
to appeal to the uninformed or misinformed.

> Scandinavian countries are the lesson we should follow IMHO.

Agreed. Up until these most recent times.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist







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