-=> RICHARD WEBB wrote to BOB KLAHN <=-   
      
    RW> HI Bob,   
    RW> SOrry 'bout that, had to exit reader/editor to run a ham   
    RW> radio net ...   
    RW> so,   
      
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> THey're much easier, dumb down the populace, sell 'em   
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> YEs they do, which is why we can't discuss climate change,   
      
   I recall Hanson with NASA being gagged.   
      
    RW> our scientists are discouraged from pursuing stem cell   
    RW> research that could save lives.    
      
   Allow cripples a chance to walk again and give a life back    
   to badly wounded veterans.   
      
    RW> tO hell with the diabetics   
    RW> and people with immune system deficiencies who might be   
    RW> helped, and therefore become productive again.  REal science is   
    RW> inconvenient, it might actually improve life on this   
    RW> planet, but there's not enough return on it to fatten the   
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> OF course, they're discouraged from even contemplating how   
    RW> it is they have all these toys.  RUpert and the wall street   
    RW> types can use the great technological advances of yesterday   
    RW> to dumb down and control the masses of American sheeple.   
      
   Don't hold back Richard, tell us what you really think ;-)   
   Saves me from saying it.   
      
    RW> What was once the greatest country on earth is no longer a   
    RW> bastion of freedom and a beacon of hope.  Screw hope and   
    RW> freedom, there's not enough money in it.   
    RW> But, to make sure that hope and freedom go by the boards we   
    RW> have to discount and marginalize true culture as well.   
    RW> Music and art, screw them too.  WE've caused there to be a   
    RW> fight between the ignorant "we want it all for free" folks   
    RW> and the creators who should expect to get paid for their   
    RW> 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.   
      
    RW> I'll stand by that last remark.   
      
    RW> Regards,   
    RW>            Richard   
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