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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!execu!mike
- From: mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: "Keep Your Pollution!" (Article)
- Message-ID: <3596@execu.execu.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:37:30 GMT
- References: <9207280232.AA12737@poly.math.cornell.edu> <3595@execu.execu.com> <1992Jul28.211303.1784@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul28.211303.1784@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
- >In article <3595@execu.execu.com> mike@execu.execu.com (Mike McCants) writes:
- >>Wow, what a neat proposal. Let's have a UN body that is responsible
- >>to no electorate (but to the "votes" of the "East"?) make our
- >>economic and political decisions. Not much point in having a
- >>presidential election, is there?
- >
- >Welcome to the Third World Mr. McCants. I would hope your sense of
- >empathy for the lives of many citizens of most of the world would be
- >heightened by sharing in the experience of powerlessness. In case its
- >not obvious, substitute "East" with "West" in the above, and position
- >yourself in India or elsewhere. Yeah, its a gross simplification, but
- >it carries a subtle truth.
- >
-
- I can't make much sense out of what I think you said.
-
- I don't expect to "share in their experience of powerlessness" until
- Clinton takes office in January. Are you claiming that the UN responds
- to the wishes of the West? I disagree. Let's have a vote to shut down
- the UN and see who really wants to keep it. Let's see if those who
- benefit from its programs want to keep it and those who pay are willing
- to abolish it. I don't see any subtle truths here.
-
- If they are powerless, is it because they voluntarily gave up
- their power? Why should the US voluntarily give its right to determine
- its own fate to a UN body? The "environmentalists" can't understand
- why Bush is so stubborn about not giving away our rights. Clinton
- and Gore will take care of that problem. The UN will soon give
- us $4/gal gasoline. Then I will no longer pay more in insurance
- than I do for fuel.
-