Saturday, February 14, 2004

Well

I managed to print out Ted Kazinski's manifesto.
You know what's bothersom about it? Other than the guy had faulty ideas they were well thought out and articulated. Even though written well we wouldn't even know about him and his ideas if he hadn't resorted to violence,and that is a bad problem.
It raises the question about whether that speaks well of a society when we would listen to off base people and ideas only if they get violent. It also brings to reasononing debate questions about whether we should sequester such writings for the public good. I have no doubts that reasonable men would be able to put aside as fallicy such things as this manifesto would try to instill yet if we as a nation are to survive, then we had better be doing a better job of educating all of our children against falling to the evils of taking violent action to acomplish social or political ends. We call that terrorism.
We have elections and we vote and that is the process.
If we don't like the outcomes then we wait. Mabey even wait a lifetime. But Kazinski wouldn't wait to see if his ideas would stand the test of time. Patience is a gift and if people won't be, and try to push through thier ideas then what we may get is something other than democracy and I for one do not want to take a chance on some other form of government. What America has is the best the world has ever come up with.
It is a proven fact that time and time again we the people have won over all kinds of evil. corrupt groups, and individuals which had thought to bribe, corrupt, or manipulate thier way to power. Every single one.

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