Re: Occultists, Greens, and other random thoughts...

From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 23:10:42 MST


Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> Let's see... the Greens support equal redistribution of wealth,

Theft and largess bestowed upon the thief's henchmen...

> an increase in localization and community self-reliance,

Balkanization...

> fighting for equal civil rights,

Those that they let you keep, anyway...

> better regulated international trade,

Protective and punitive tariffs...

> the development of clean and sustainable sources of energy,

Which also happen to be expensive and unreliable...

> the promotion of mass transit and neighborhoods constructed
> for pedestrians instead of cars,

Via punishing taxes on automotive fuels...

> a woman's right to reproductive choice,

How kind of them to give her this one, after taking away so many
others...

> the promotion of small scale organic agriculture
> over industrialized, chemical agriculture,

Expensive, bug infested food in short supply...

> Native American sovereignty,

A noble goal about 100 years too late...

> and waste reduction programs.

Ignoring, of course, the waste caused by gross interference with
markets.

> In other words, the future that I think most Greens envision is not one of
> wilderness survivalism, but one of a technological ecotopia reminiscent of
> the Earth seen on Star Trek... in other words, a progressive, holistic view
> in which we begin to focus on what is really important in life, instead of
> what corporations tell us, and where advanced technology intermingles with a
> clean, healthy planetary ecosystem.

Nice dream- too bad the methods used tend to produce police states.

--
Doug Jones, Rocket Plumber
XCOR Aerospace


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