Forum Archive Index - January 2004

[robin benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Hi Allan

On 26 Jan 2004, at 06:05, Allan Potts wrote:

> we do not like centralization.

Unfortunately, for both the US and the rest of the world, power is 
massively centralised in the US, and George W Bush, unfortunately, is 
in the thick of it, driven in all respects by idealogues such as 
Rumsfeld, Pearl, Wolfowitz, Cheney et al. You are, presumably, aware of 
the PNAC? How many Americans understand this agenda in the context of 
history and the implications for our collective (global) future?

> Each city and county has it's own laws and tax rates.  Multiply this 
> by the thousands of jurisdictions we have in our country and you can 
> see we do not like centralization.  This extends to the election of 
> our President ergo each state has "it's own say" in the  election.

This system cannot be considered by any yardstick a democracy.

> This is probably very foreign to Kiwi's, but then we are foreigners.  
> Nice foreigners,

It depends who one is. If you're an Afgan child, or Canadian soldier, 
who happens to be at the wrong end of US incompetence, then it's not 
very nice. If you are an exporter who has worked hard to make your 
business lean and efficient in the hope of being competitive on the 
world market, only to find that the US wants everybody else to remove 
tariffs so US goods can penetrate foreign markets but selling in the US 
market is made difficult, sometimes impossible, by US tariffs, then 
that's not very nice. The list goes on and on. Until you and other 
Americans have a clearer picture of what actually is going on, free 
from illusions constructed by your political and ideological masters, 
little will change.

Regards

Robin


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