From:	Arclight arclight@**************.com
Subject:	the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:31:49 +0200

And finally, Snake Eyes expressed himself by writing:

> >If you have problems with your goverment, it's the wrong way to get
> >yourself a load of guns, practice guerilla warfare and stock explosives.
> >What about going to vote for another party?
>
> If one can, in fact, actually effect true change through
> universal suffrage
> and the electoral process, than that is indeed the correct route,
> especially in a so-called "enlightened" democracy. But when the
> disenfranchised are left with no other option, there are some
> things worth
> blowing up a building over.

But you should try voting first. With about 40% of the people
going to vote in the US last time, IIRC, I don't think they tried.

> America's founding fathers were all traitors to the Crown.

I know that :)

> Remember that
> the only difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is
> whose side
> you are on.

From their POV, yes. But to get a more objective opinion, ask
a third party.
Arkan (a serb militia leader who apparently killed many Muslim
in Bosnia) thinks of himself as a freedom fighter. Is he?
(note: I in no way want to compare this miserable chunk of flesh
with US militias!)

> I defer to Thomas Jefferson:
>
> "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
> the blood of
> patriots and tyrants."

But are the tyrants Saddam Hussain and Slobodan Milosevic,
or FBI agents in Oklahoma?

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