Rants

Rather than rehashing everything that you just said, I'll simply second it all. Brilliant.

a. The act or process of corrupting.
b. The state of being corrupt.
2 Decay; rot.
3. Archaic. Something that corrupts.


I just put that up there for some comic relief to our waging war agianst "god" as he so likes to be called, but instead I will call him by Jeff's given name "The Beast Master." So here goes : The Beast Master is saying that within a democracy corruption can be rooted out because voting is like a redeeming a cleansing process. This is what I believe to be a very naive thought, but i will continue the synapsis. So the rebels that are desperately battling thus said Beast Master are basically trying to claim that not even voting will root out the evils of corruption in a society. But the said Rebels have failed to give example of Democracies and have only been able give examples of Totalitarian states. Conclude Synapsis. Now what I believe is that in this modern age of large media and the "internet" we are still unable to see all of the corruption that is taking place in the government. And since we being the voters don't know where and when and how our government in corrupt and who are the corrupters, then we are therefore unable to vote the corrupters out of office and cleanse our system of corruption. I will leave this arguement at that but I will move to another, and that is that we should have no local governments?!? This boggles my mind because as a conservative this is the main thing that I want. I was at the San Fran baseball game and The Amerian flag was not as high up as the Californian State Flag and at this I was almost crying because it was so beautiful. A state that thought their local goverment was more important than the one in Washington! But later i found out the American flag was just positioned further away than the Californian flag. Here is the thing though when people, we, are all being ruled by a government in Washington then the system becomes more similiar to that of a monarchy because we are being ruled from far away and by people who don't what are problems are. To combat that problem we have Senators and House Reps. that go to Washington and make the Minnesotan's buisness known, and I don't think they do a good enough job of that. I agree with you Beast Master that many laws the state passes are unneccesary and meaningless, but I think that is because they are power hungry and state government officials want to say that they have some power and they then pass the only laws that they are allowed to pass these day, meaningless ones. So what I would like is there not to be less local government, but instead to remove their meaningless take alot of the power away from Washington and the central locations and transfer that power to the state level, where the people would be better heard and provided for. And very lastly I would like to apologize for making the last few articles turn into a boxing match where I directly attacked Jesse. I, as I look back on it, think that was in bad taste and this column Atimes, is about expressing beliefs and it isn't about attacking other peoples beliefs, merely arguining with them. So in the future I will try to not directly attack a person but instead attack his column.

As my title says we are not communist nor monarchy and the corruption can be removed through somthing as simple as getting off your ass and voting.

Corruption is nothing less than the strongest poison to any organization lording over a group of people with brains between their ears. Take pre-Communist Russia for example. The people recognized that the Romanovs were merely pawns to Rasputin's corrupting influence, so they killed said influence along wirh his supporters (in a slightly less spectacular fashion), and formed a coup which brought a new leader to power. However, this story has a downside as well. Their blind faith in the new form of government and its decisions brought them into the mindset that nothing could possibly harm them, as they followed Communism, whilst Stalin's regime became in many ways more corrupt and evil than Czar Nicholas's a quarter-century earlier. Thus, corruption can destroy a corrupted regime if the people are brave enough to see it, or, in a worst-case scenario, strengthen the belief in the regime and the country it rules. Oh, and by the way, Jesse, thank you for restoring the paper to its former glory days of existing above censorship.

Instead of being a hypocrite for I am much against censorship, I have deleted my comment on Andrews article "Jesse and Historical References Confused (Jesse: no wait, Andrew is confused on the let them eat cake)" but before you go and insult my intelligence do read my article at least twice for I was raised Czech and things may be fraised a bit oddly. I would also like to apologize, but this does not meen I am caving in so don't go off and get cocky.

First off I will only mess with rants when it's a matter of my integrity being wrongfully downgraded. Secondly "no government is perfect" and yet "no government" isn't perfect either. Anarchy cannot exist for small governments would for automatically by people joining together to percent gangs from riding towns. I'm not saying, "Oh, America is wonderful" but is better than any other place I know of. I believe the less government the better, their should be no local government, and no stupid laws to enforce like the Hopkins law "a garage must the same color as a house" Save the tax payers money and simplify next near everything. We are a party system, live with it, and their are MANY parties, not just two. Look at Jesse Ventura, he's neither DFL nor GOP and yet he was elected.

As far as corruption goes, I disagree with both of you. What happens when a country is in an oppresive situation, is a revolution. Now this can be aided by another government, as Gross said, but it's far from democratic. No large government is perfect. To quote Tommy Lee Jones character from Men in Black, "a person is smart, people are dumb panicky animals". A large group of people will ruin any system, no matter how good the theory of it is. My point was that I'm so fed up with all the idiots that think America is so great. They think they're so damn rightious, and they think that nothing we can do is wrong. I'm gonna say right now, the system doesn't work unless it's a small system, and their aren't currently. I also hate the whiny politicans who have the backing of their major party. There was little difference between the candidates for President. Politically, they kept saying the same things. And if we are going to have a party system, we really need to get a second party. As for myself, I'll stay with the whig party for now.
(also, I agree with Gross in that Jesse shouldn't mess with other people's rants)

-First off I would like to say it fixes it self because we elect our officals and if somone is known to be corrupt it fixes it self, secondly look at enron, it fixed it self, and thirdly how is columbia any of our buisness? Even if it was our buisness, a corupt government kills it self, it can only exploit its people for so long before they take out the governent. And their government was SMALL and was hundreds of times simpler to force into a dictatorship, if you believe america could ever becaome a dictatorship within any of our lifetimes without much of the country first being nuked you are so very wrong. ALSO, YOU ARE IN SANFRANCISCO, the land where you are PAID to be a bum by the city! BUMS MIGRATE TO SANFRANCISCO, and that is why there are so many. They are not working by choice and eating fine so shut up. Lastly I am god and will change what ever the hell I like, just be glad I changed none of the content.

How dare you say that corruption is something to be embraced, corruption is the downfall of any government and will destroy all governments that choose to embrace it. And what is this that Corruption fixes itself, give me one cause of where that is true. Look at Colombia, this country has chosen a route of illegality and how and when is it fixing itself. The people of Colombia are starving and the "government," dictavitve officials are becoming fatter and fatter on the money their illegality is making for them. And their corruption, jesse, how will it end? It won't end with two people getting married and being happy ever after as your ingnorant rave tried to assert, but instead one of two ways. The first the country will just plan die out and the politicians and officials will be the only ones left, and the more foreseable future America goes in killing thousands of civilians to get rid of this corruption. If nature would take its course Colombia would always be corrupt, but outside forced have to step in to stop that corruption. And now lets look at America. A democracy which many ideals of our nation spawned from, strives on the fact that the government servers the people by what the people want. And corruption is the exact opposite it is the politians doing what is best for themselves hence the ruin of our country. You can continue to embrace this corruption of a governement serving the government itself and not its people, but I would loose all respect for you as a person and a conservative. And how dare you say that you and your friends have food. I am staying in San Fran for just a few days, and actually today is my first, I have already seen horrible poverty and a system that does not work as well as it should and could. Back tracking a little I have no problem against making money, I believe everyone should be allowed to make as much money as they can, but I believe that they should make it by their own legal means.

First off I knew who said "Let them eat cake" and I was stating that to show one of the problems with a monarchy you jack ass. Corruption, its natural, and it fixes it self. our government is not week enoguh to be taken out by corruption, its nothing to fear but instead somthing to embrace. I was saying that by electing people from the general public they know of the problems of the general public. And so what if Bush bought stock in Enron, does that make all the other inverstors bad? No, its just the execs at Enron who made the company out to look mor profitable than it was! And personaly I believe in all out Reganomics, cutting back on all unneeded governement. Secondly how is the current system not working? I have food, everyone I know has food, the system is working just fine you jack ass. AND POLITICAL PARTIES ALOW YOU TO EASILY KNOW WHERE SOMONE STANDS ON THE ISSUES, I AM A REPUBLICAN AND YET I DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING THE REPUBLICANS SAY, YOU JACK ASS