IP: more on "What's A Military Take-over, Daddy?"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Sender: rberger () imap ultradevices com
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:58:18 -0800
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ultradevices com>
>
> I find it quite scary as well.
>
> I expect that we are going to have a financial crash soon that will make 
> the dotcom crash look trivial.
>
> If what Anderson was doing with Enron and Enron doing with Anderson is 
> discovered to be commonplace in the Fortune 100 companies, the basic trust 
> in the underlying mechanisms of our capitalist society will be undermined. 
> At a minimum this will cause a stock market crash as it comes out that the 
> corporate financial statements are officially wrong by a lot. The other 
> extreme is that causes a general panic.
>
> At that point we will see what our government is made up of. It could go 
> fascist and take advantage of all this " massive internal security 
> apparatus, similar to those in undemocratic nations" to "quell unrest and 
> terrorist activites" that spring up in various riots and demonstrations.
>
> Or it could cause a major purging and purification of our "elected" 
> government officials, major campaign finance reform, Watergate like 
> investigations and uncovering of how the US is the biggest home of Crony 
> Capitalism and thus proper financial reform on the level of the post 
> Depression and political reform on the order of post Watergate.
>
> I hope its the later...
>
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