Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:08:42 -0700
From: frdmftr@MINDSPRING.COM (Don Cline)
Subject: Re: FDR on Liberty
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: Al Germain <algcholla@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <AZRKBA@asu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: FDR on Liberty


> I think facism is a bigger threat than communism.  Fascism at least uses

the
> power of self interest of the business owners to make a bigger profit,

> enticing them to make their companies more efficient in their service to

the
> state.  With communism the only incentives to get better at anything are

> fear of the rulers and altruisn for your fellow man.  Communism will

> eventually collapse of it own inefficiency.  Facism can work, making it a

> worse threat.

>

> There is the story about a reporter who interviewed Mussolini when he was

> leader of Italy.  He asked if America would ever have facism.  Mussolini

> thought about it for a minute and replied `Yes, but you will call it

> something else.'

>

> Al Germain


Of course we will call it something else, just as Mussolini called his
version of feudalism something else:  He called it Fascism.

All the various labels of all the various political ideologies, and
irrelevant fine points like who owns the means of production and who
controls it, etc., are smokescreens generated by those who favor one method
or another of establishing feudal control:  That governance of the people in
which the people doing the governing are not accountable to those who are
governed.

Capitalism is no better than any of the others if you allow those who
practice it for profit be secure from accountability for their actions.
--
Don Cline
frdmftr@mindspring.com
www.mindspring.com/~frdmftr

A Title of Nobility sets the recipient "above the common herd" so that he is
not accountable to his subjects for what he does so long as what he does is
"in the public interest".  A Title of Nobility is illegal under the U.S.
Constitution.

Limited liability incorporation sets the officers of the corporation "above
the common herd" so the corporate officers cannot be held personally
accountable for what they do in the name of the corporation -- so long as
what the corporation does is "in the public interest".

And who defines "in the public interest"?

Think about it.

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