From: gharlane@nextnet.csus.edu (Gharlane of Eddore)
Subject: Objection to mindless pro-government hogwash in A.F.M-J.
Followup-To: alt.dev.null
Summary: Is there a deconditioner in the house?
Keywords: politician <==> "hollywood producer" with legal immunity
Organization: Evil Beings From Planet Eddore, Inc.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:39:31 GMT


Some person named "PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu," apparently brain-numbed by
years of media blitzing, found it appropriate to enter in A.F.M-J:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:20:41 EST
> From: <PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu>
> Organization: Penn State University
> Subject: Re: Mike Jittlov for US President ?
> Distribution: world
> 
> Jessica and I were at the Inauguration!  What a day!  It was wonderful.
> Everyone was happy and smiling.  I wept when Al Gore, someone I admire
> _very_ much, took his oath.  Jessica wept during President Clinton's
> speech.

  A great many people, worldwide, wept; although the vast majority of
  us possessed far better reasons for our tears than the unreasoning
  religious or psychosexual fixation that would appear to to have been
  your primary motivating factor.

> Gosh, it feels _good_ to type that--President Clinton.

  Yes, other people enjoy pain and horror too.  The stark terror of 
  the moment compares favorably to the penultimate scene in "ALIENS."

> People were dancing and laughing and doing little hip-hops of joy.  We
> saw an elderly couple with toy saxophones hanging around their necks.
> We bought "First Feline" buttons.

  Did you also buy "Elvis Lives" buttons and Pieces Of The True Cross
  while you were at it?  Did you experience Possession By the Holy Spirit,
  and Speaking In Tongues?

> When Bush took off in the green helicopter, we said, "Good riddance."

  Is this meant to imply that you actually expect a difference in the 
  quality of our lives as a result of this last election?  Inflation,
  which is nothing but a technique for taxing you without your consent,
  will continue to exist, in camoflaged double digits; taxation of 
  property and income will still exist, without your consent; and 
  your government will continue to spend two-thirds of the money it 
  takes from you (without legal right) on zero-yield armaments and 
  stupid things like the THIRTY-THREE-MILLION-DOLLAR INAUGURATION PARTY
  you just attended.
  (I hope you got your money's worth, because I sure as hell didn't.)

    The things you CAN count on from your new administration are that
  your cost of living will continue to go up, the value of your dollars
  will continue to decrease, and the actual costs of food, housing, and
  medical care will continue to increase.  And you and the other 250 
  million people in this country will not get one damn thing in exchange
  for that portion of our lives which is taken away without our consent
  to support govermental boondoggles like the happy little party you just
  attended, the cost of which COULD have created a major university or 
  relocated hundreds of thousands of starving inner-city types to arable
  midwest farmland.  But by co-operating with it, and bragging and
  enthusing over it, you're telling our "government" what you really and
  truly want...  not efficiency, just more Bread and Circuses.

> Paula

  No offense, but shouldn't that .sig line be amended to something 
  more along the lines of "Paula, The Incredibly Delusional And Credulous?"
 
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