[ale] ["Topic"? I don't think it means what you think it means] Re: Incompetent corporate web sites

[wylde bill]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:58 -0400, William Fragakis wrote:

> > Let's have a collective that congress can't touch.  And shoot any of the
> > bastards who try.
> I think that's a great idea. And how would we decide who runs the
> collective? It would seem sensible that the collective itself would
> decide. Maybe by voting? Therefore the collective would elect who runs
> the collective. That sounds definitely better than the system we have
> where we vote for... 
> 
> oh wait... we do that already.

No, actually we don't.  We have one entity that effectively controls
what is and is not illegal behavior, the (in?)justice system which acts 
on those laws, and the judicial system which makes rulings on the cases
brought by said justice system.

Yes, it would probably be best if we had some sort of republican (not in
the partisan sense) control over who was running the collective I'm
suggesting. 

The difference between what we've got now and what I'm suggesting is
that while the medical "congress" might be able to decide to spend money
on a trip to the Bahamas or some such nonsense, they'd not be able to
pass a law which made it LEGAL for them to go to the Bahamas on our
dime- or even spend it on some well-intentioned project like making sure
pre-schoolers all get a daily dose of government propaganda to make them
into "better" people.  

The only civil or federal government interaction would be to make sure
nobody was stealing or defrauding anyone.  Period.  Safe as keeping
money in a bank...





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"I've been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no
new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where
there'd be nothing to envy your neighbor. But there's always something
to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to
appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich
and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love." --
Commisar Danilov, "Enemy at the Gates"