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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan, I understand dismay, but I don't know what
you are talking about when you refer to "Mike Arvey's consiracy theory piece in
the Sounding Off column". I don't know who Mike Arvey is, or why I should
care that he is "sounding off" in a column called Sounding Off.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you are "sound off" expressing your dismay then
I'm *slightly* predisposed towards caring because you have self
selected a list I post to to do it on and that reinforces that you might have
something in common with me on some level. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am dismayed too. I think that America has been
the greatest country on earth, but I fear that it might have become irredeemable
since the Bush administration went that final step in corrupting
the UN, and invading Iraq illegally. I think that when Bush set
aside that law, he also broke his own oath to the US people, but then the US
people reelected </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>him and the only way that I
can think of would undo the harm done would be for you to impeach
your President and try him for any crimes and then and only when America has
cleaned its own house, should the UN be reformed. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As things stand, now almost everything about
America and Americans as a collective sample of priviledged selfish stupid
humanity dismays me. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do I think Australians or any other nationality
are any better? No. My dismay with America and Americans is
because your country was the best and your people as a
collective were more empowered than any others to make the future
better. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The world has taken a turn for the worse in our
lives and on our watch. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Freedoms in so called
democratic countries are being lost. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And we are all in part responsible for it but those
who could do have done more and chose to do less are more responsible. Americans
have a Bill of Rights to protect them and a Constitution that is their contract
with each other and with the President and yet they do nothing.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I cannot hold America as a whole responsible for
what America does in the world then who can I hold responsible? Americans
re-elected Bush. And I think in so doing, as a collective, they became a net
liability to human progress. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=albrooks2006@yahoo.com href="mailto:albrooks2006@yahoo.com">Alan
Brooks</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat] letter concerning
presidential growth</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=courier size=4>[if no one complains of my recycled Letters To
The Editor, such will be taken as acquiesence. Some may not like the letters;
some might not read them-- however a few may read & appreciate
them]<BR></FONT><BR><STRONG>Noted with dismay Mike Arvey's conspiracy theory
piece in the Sounding Off column. Conspiracy theories metastasize
all over the web, and now we get them on the editorial page of this
paper? Well, at least the title, 'From The Grassy Knoll', is correct.
</STRONG><STRONG>Conspiracy theories take grains of validity and attempt
to enlarge them into rocks</STRONG><STRONG>, you don't even require a computer
or books & periodicals to know about them, you can overhear
conversations in a city such as this if you keep your ears open. The New
World Order; Cheney; Halliburton. The first time I heard about Halliburton it
was exciting but now after hearing about Halliburton on perhaps over
a </STRONG><STRONG>thousand occasions since 1999 it is enough to
give one the heaves. </STRONG><STRONG>Arvey gives the game away in
his 4th paragraph:<EM> "When Bush says that 'rebuilding a nation
devastated by a dictator is a large undertaking,' he demonstrates, once
again, his projective skills".</EM> Oh, so now Bush has skills, he is no
longer a cretinous frat boy sitting on Cheney's lap? Bush has demonstrated
'career agility' and is now adept at 'personal
growth'?</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG> Bush is now 'with it'? </STRONG></DIV><BR><BR>nattering
nabob Of positivism since 1976
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