Because the IRS works for "the United States of America and its people"
- not the Treasury Department and their boss in the White House. NOT.
"With the consent of the senate, I will no longer represent only the
White House. I will represent the United States of America, and its
people." - Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General nominee testifying before
the Senate Judiciary Committee, January 6, 2005.

Larry Heath wrote:

...

This is hardly a big surprise!

The whole Bush administration is built on this type of nonsense, well, I
suppose it's not really nonsense it works for the Bush administration very
well. It is the religious right's attempt to force their thinking, on all
the rest of the people here in the United States...This is precisely why the

of the people of these United States, that did not vote in the current
election cycle, need to wake up and realize that their rights are going to
be taken away from them. They're going to be told what to do, when to do
it, how to do it, where to do it, and which God they prey to. Mark me, they
will be considered enemies of the state if they don't pray to the God chosen
by our theocratic leaders. In what is obviously becoming a theocratic
state. Even if these nonparticipants believe in some other God of their
choice, or no God at all.

Doesn't this begin to sound very much like the Afghan theocratic government.

Later Larry

Isn't that the tragedy of a powerful government? It imposes the values
of some on others. Whether the religioius right or the secular left or
the religious left does it the results is still imposing tyranny.

Wasn't America supposed to be about voluntary agreement instead of
forced obedience?
Isn't it high time to join The Resistance?
http://www.ny.lp.org/choice
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"
In crafting the Bill of Rights, the framers were careful to acknowledge
implicitly and explicitly two key truths:

The first is that government does not grant rights it acknowledges them.
They exist independently of government. They're part of who and what we
are. And, as Jefferson noted in the Declaration of Independence, the
only legitimate function of government is to secure them.

The second is that government is a servant to whom we delegate powers,
not a master who dispenses privileges. The Constitution carefully
enumerates the powers we, the people, delegate to our government and it
specifically denies that government any powers not so delegated. Our
rights lie beyond the pale of that delegation. They are sacrosanct. Any
government which infringes upon them is engaged in an intolerable
usurpation.
"
www.badnarik.org
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It was another close election. We find ourselves warring against each
other - - red states and blue; 'them against us'; Left vs. Right;
Republicans vs. Democrats. These forces are just about equal. Each seeks
to take, keep and expand the power to impose values on the other.
Campaign finance laws not withstanding, this election cost much more
than the last. Both sides spent as if in combat and more than many
countries spend on a real war. All else -- other ideas for example -- is
a distraction we can no longer afford in this new war between Americans.
Win at all cost! Tons of money, advertising campaigns, phone banks,
promises, defections, Get out the vote battalions, voter registration
shenanigans, vote fraud, hoards of pollsters, and armies of lawyers have
become our new reality. Except for that other war, the media covered
little else and ignored other candidates.

Why is an election so important? Is it because so much power has never
been so concentrated in so few? If power corrupts, what has happened to
our perspective? Cant there be more colors than just red or blue? We
keep getting evidence that politics as usual is dysfunctional. So why do
we allow ourselves to see no other choices? Is choice even possible
without diversity? What do you have when you have no choice? Cars arent
either red or blue so why must we all be limited by Republican or
Democrat rules?

Prohibitions, limitations and mandates now rule us all. Red voters hope
to impose their values on the blue and visa versa. The red forces will
limit, mandate or prohibit some things while blue cohorts would do the
same to others. No matter the outcome, one half of the electorate will
have gained more power to impose its values at the expense of the other
half. Isnt that expense becoming unbearable and unsustainable for all?

Should we be ruled by anyone? Should values be forced on us and choices
restricted by any party? Cant we try to liberate instead of regulate
each other? Wasnt America supposed to be about voluntary agreement
instead of forced obedience?

Sincerely,

Werner Hetzner

Libertarian Party of New York
http://www.NY.LP.org/choice
http://1marketsquare.com/CapLP/index.html

In article <41E0141F.814BA61D@worldnet.att.net>, "Theodore A. Kaldis"
<kaldis@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

-Because, thankfully, Bill Clinton is no longer the President.
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-TAre you still living in Australia Mr.Kaldis?

I have never expressed malice, online or otherwise.

Theodore A. Kaldis wrote:

Because, thankfully, Bill Clinton is no longer the President.

I take it that you find it perfectly acceptable for religious nutters
to flagrantly violate the law, but not state judges, prosecutors,
and/or law enforcement personnel (but only when members of your family
are the ones affected). Your pervasive religious hypocrisy taints
everything you think, do, and say.

Focus on the Family accepted Section 501(c)(3) status, which is in a
sense a "deal with the devil": In accepting the benefits of
tax-favored status, Dobson agreed not to involve his ministry in
partisan political affairs. And as the law says that they can't, they
should pay the price required under law. They should lose their
tax-exempt status. Period.

Theodore A. Kaldis wrote:

Because, thankfully, Bill Clinton is no longer the President.

And you prefer Bush, because of why ?