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Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, David Wagner wrote:
> In article <Pine.3.89.9609152124.A20702-0100000@netcom9>,
> Lucky Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > Just a comment: "The world population really should go back to around
> > > one billion", etc. And how could we achieve that without severe govt.
> > > oppression, one wonders?
> >
> > Quite simple. End all food and medical aid to developing countries paid
> > for with money stolen at gunpoint from our citizens. Or make Norplant
> > implants the condition for financial/in kind aid. Both US and
> > abroad.
>
> Why stop there?
>
> Make biometric ID implants the condition for welfare and financial aid, so
> we can track them in case they spend it on (gasp!) donations to the Libertarian
> party.
>
> Government scholarships for education and research? Better wiretap their
> phones & emails, in case the recipients use the scholarships to work on strong
> non-GAKed cryptography.
What, pray tell, does the above have to do with Mr. Green's point?
>
> Hell, folks are also taking advantage of government money every time they
> step foot on a park or government road: might as well require citizen-units
> to escrow their identity and confiscate their guns as a condition of usage.
>
And this? Mr. Green hardly advocated an authortarian regime, quite the
contrary, he simply advocated one which refused to hand out money to every
outstretched hand.
> ``Buckle your thought-escrow-unit, it's the law!''
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