Subj : Re: Once upon a time. To : RICHARD WEBB From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE Date : Tue Mar 29 2011 15:55:00 -=> 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 RW> --- timEd 1.10.y2k+ RW> * Origin: (1:116/901) .... It is the best of all possible worlds. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49 * Origin: Since 1991 And Were Still Here! DOCSPLACE.TZO.COM (1:123/140) .