[MD] Fundamental nature of government

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Christoffer Ivarsson <IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com>:

> 
> 
> > 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.

Agree. PC is an example of social values pushing aside the intellectual pattern
of free speech. And while evolution is a continuous process, within it are seeds
of devolution.

Regards,
Platt
 

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