[MD] Fundamental nature of government

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> Those who harbor any doubt about the fundamental nature of government 
> might
> want to ponder the fate of Wesley Snipes who was sentenced yesterday to
> three years in prison for failure to pay income taxes. "Snipes' long 
> prison
> sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers
> that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him
> and his co-defendants ... as inmates in prison," said Nathan Hochman, an
> official at the US Department of Justice Tax Division.
>
> Handcuffs, guns, prisons --there's no escape from the ugly truth.
>
> Regards,
> Platt

So? Sure, governments make laws. If you break the laws, the government 
punishes you. No one denies that those are some of the means a government 
uses. All we can do is try to make sure that the social pattern that is the 
government is controlled by intellectual patterns.  Obviously, in the case 
of most governments intellectual patterns are pushed aside by social values, 
but evolution is a continuous process.

Regards

Chris