HI Bob,   
   SOrry 'bout that, had to exit reader/editor to run a ham   
   radio net ...   
   so,   
      
   following up a message from Richard Webb to BOB KLAHN:   
      
   BK>>  Once America was a nation that celebrated knowledge and science.   
      
   BK>>  Now America is a nation where right wing lies and hate are the   
   BK>> nationl currency of debate.   
      
   THey're much easier, dumb down the populace, sell 'em   
   anything.   
      
   BK>>  Enjoy your prison.   
      
    RW> And this surprises you how?   
      
   BK>  Saddens, not surprises.   
      
   RW> Doesn't do either for me, angers me.  We don't teach kids   
   RW> civics anymore, we just keep dumbing it down and dumbing it   
   RW> own, but the big fascists who really have a lot to gain like a   
   RW> dumbed down populace.   
      
   YEs they do, which is why we can't discuss climate change,   
   our scientists are discouraged from pursuing stem cell   
   research that could save lives.  tO hell with the diabetics   
   and people with immune system deficiencies who might be   
   helped, and therefore become productive again.  REal science is inconvenient,   
   it might actually improve life on this   
   planet, but there's not enough return on it to fatten the   
   wallets of the parasites in WAll street, etc.   
      
   RW> Most of these pieces of human garbage would discount and   
   RW> ridicule the scientists who put the toys they now enjoy in   
   RW> their hands.  They have no clue whatsoever what gave them   
   RW> their little satellite dish and their fifty-seven channels   
   RW> of nothin' on.   
      
   OF course, they're discouraged from even contemplating how   
   it is they have all these toys.  RUpert and the wall street   
   types can use the great technological advances of yesterday   
   to dumb down and control the masses of American sheeple.   
   What was once the greatest country on earth is no longer a   
   bastion of freedom and a beacon of hope.  Screw hope and   
   freedom, there's not enough money in it.   
   But, to make sure that hope and freedom go by the boards we   
   have to discount and marginalize true culture as well.   
   Music and art, screw them too.  WE've caused there to be a   
   fight between the ignorant "we want it all for free" folks   
   and the creators who should expect to get paid for their   
   work.   
      
   RW> Sometimes I thank god I'm already on the down side of the   
   RW> slippery slope, at least I won't get to see the worst of   
   RW> what the fascists and their dumbed down masses will create.   
   RW> I am truly sorry I left offspring behind to be part of it however.   
      
   I'll stand by that last remark.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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