Re: RE: [privacy] Frank Rich: Will the Real Traitors PleaseS tand Up?

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 5/15/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Ahhh, revisionist history. Gotta love it.  ;-)
<SNIP>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee:

"These revelations convinced many Senators and Representatives that
the Congress itself had been too lax, trusting, and naive in carrying
out its oversight responsibilities. (Many of the so-called family
jewels had been briefed to some members on the existing oversight
panels, but in the highly charged atmosphere of the Watergate period
they tended to opt for selective amnesia when asked if they had known
about these activities.)[2]"

Hmm..sounds familiar...


> I could find more, but that's enough to illustrate that
> people in positions of power misuse those powers for illegal
> purposes. That is explicitly why there need to be checks and
> balances to prevent any one branch of governement from steamrolling
> it's will upon the other(s).

That's why we have checks and balances, but that's aside the point.
The "nature" of government is to rule - so long as the populace puts
up with it, the power it requires to rule will grow. Period. That's
the way of ALL governments EVERYWHERE since the beginning of
civilization.

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