DW>> All the while the rules and no no's get nastier and more restrictive.

 BL>> Bureaucracy is the real threat to freedom. The problem with Russia was
 BL>> not Communism, it was Bureaucracy.

 BL>   There is a quotation on freedom by John Locke I like: "Freedom of men
 BL> under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every
 BL> one of that society, and made by the legislative power invested in it; a
 BL> liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes
 BL> not, and not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary
 BL> will of another man." 

Thats very apt considering what'ss going on at the moment, dont you think?

 BL>   I particularly like the way "inconstant, uncertain, unknown,
 BL> arbitrary" describes a bureaucray.

It describes the upper echelon of most large businesses and govt departments.

 DW>> Would Australia collapse without the PS??

 BL>   Of course not! The entire 2 million bureaucrats could be replaced by a
 BL> single Cray supercomputer, and ought to be! A bureaucracy has no

Who would you put in control of the computer?

 BL> function. It is self-serving and self-perpetuating, the only organism
 BL> with highly intelligent cells and zero intelligence overall.



 BL>   We should keep QANTAS and the Commonwealth Bank and privatise the 
 BL> bureaucracy by farming it out to commerce and industry.

It has merits, but do you think the general populace will go for it?


warm fuzzied huggles,
                    teddy


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