"RealID" Passes the Senate 100-0

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 11, 2005, Jay Nugent wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>On Wed, 11 May 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2005, Jay Nugent wrote:
>> ...
>> >   To foul up requires a computer.
>> >   To really F*** up requires an American!
>> >
>> >
>> >   Yes sir, Mr. Bush, you may tatoo my National Security ID to my forearm.  
>> >But do I really have to wear this silly stripped suit????
>> >
>> >   We tried hard to change the current regime, but it's obvious that HALF
>> >this country are truely idiots who think Bush is actually doing some good.
>> >Amazing times...
>> 
>> Stalin referred to them as useful idiots.  Hayek described them well in his
>> book ``Road to Serfdom'' in the chapter why the worst get to the top.
>> 
>> I don't know if this works with Linux, but a friend sent the URL to me this
>> morning.  I cheated and used my G4 with OS X.
>> 
>> 	http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf
>
>   Interesting how history tends to repeat itself...
>   ...scarey how its happening in this country!

Interestingly enough, F.A. Hayek's book ``Road to Serfdom'', originally
published in 1944, pointed out many similarities between Hitler's rise to
power in Germany, and the actions of the people in power in Britain and the
United States at the time.  Hayek, born in Austria in 1899, had grown up in
Austria and Germany, and had seen it first hand.

Hayek is not easy reading as he tends to long sentences with many
qualifying clauses, but I find it worth the effort to dig into it to
understand what he had to say.

Another book I just finished reading is Fareed Zakaria's ``The Future of
Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad''.  Zakaria makes many
interesting points relating to these although I think he's totally off base
in his conclusions about economics and the role of the Fed and Central
banks (which doesn't surprise me since he did his undergraduate work at
Yale, and got his PhD at Harvard :-).

>   "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
>   to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
>   have to do is to tell them they are being attacked,
>   and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
>   exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
>   any country."
>
>   --Hermann Goerig, 1946, commander of the German Air Force --

There's no shortage of quotes saying much the same thing (BTW:  I didn't
select the signature quote specific to this topic).

Bill
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