Denys,
How strange - I took James' comments regarding the 'last 8 years' to 
refer to the Bush administration, and the WMD war in Iraq, the raping 
of the environment in deference to Big Business, the undermining of 
the rights of the American consumer with regard to safety and 
damages...

Perhaps I missed a post?   Anyway, it's always refreshing to read 
what James writes.

Connie

>James, thank you for the great analysis of the damages wrought by the AGW
>hoax. One can only hope that Algore will be arrested and punished, but as
>you say, that's not likely to happen.  The other public officials that
>perpetuated the myth should also be dealt with, but I doubt this will occur.
>
>The damage inflicted on this country by the perpetuation of this hoax that
>played on the public's fear, is incalculable.  We are now burning our food
>supply for fuel because we are absolutely scared to use oil.  We are leaving
>this oil to be drilled for by other countries who do not share our current
>hysteria.
>
>Burning our food supply is leading to massive increases in the price of food
>which will hit women, children and minorities hardest.  This will get even
>worse as the planet continues to cool down; we are heading for colder,
>harsher winters, with no capacity to deal with the increase in the need for
>energy.
>
>As people realize the whole thing was a manufactured scare it will be up to
>us to convince our leaders to get with reality and stop the aberrant
>behavior.
>
>Thanks again, James.
>
>Denys...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>Of James B. Byrne
>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:45 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Which is your favorite?
>
>>  In war, it's never who's right...it's who's left.
>
>I venture to say that Europeans in general and the Germans in particular
>possess a considerable sentiment to the contrary.
>
>>  The US is the only country I know that went from barbarism to decadence
>>  in 200 years and missed out civilization in between.
>
>Untrue.  The United States of America is a highly civilized and generally a
>beneficent member of the community of states.
>
>The frightening lesson to be taken from the past eight years of U.S. history
>is that even highly civilized states with considerable systemic protection
>from aberrant behaviour on the part of public office holders can be led into
>doing terrible and self-destructive acts.  All it requires is enough public
>hysteria, usually generated by irrational fear, to close ones mind to the
>enormity of the error one is committing.
>
>However, and this is the critical point, all fears eventually pass and in
>their place ofttimes comes remorse.  In a civilized country, as the USA most
>certainly is, this remorse leads to self-examination, reflection, and
>eventually the erection of even greater social protections against the whim
>of
>emotion.  This is the stage that the U.S. is now entering and those that
>betrayed their country whilst consumed by the passions of fear will find
>themselves ever more shunned and marginalized by those who deeply and
>profoundly regret what has happened.  The guilty may never stand trial, for
>such is the case with the powerful, but the influence and persuasiveness of
>their beliefs will diminish.  For many of them, this will be a harsher
>punishment than any a court could impose.
>
>We need only look to the past and consider how in past generations the
>beliefs
>professed and treatment meted out by the powerful towards aboriginal peoples
>in the 19-20C; Socialists, Germans and Chinese in the early 20C; Germans and
>Japanese during WWII; Communists in the 1950s; and blacks up to the present
>day are now widely held in contempt by mainstream society.
>
>The mark of a civilized people is not that they never err, but that they
>learn
>from those errors.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
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