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Why The Goverment should repo Union Pacific!

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard This is one of the few nations on earth were the individule isn't subordinate to the state, and where individule freedoms don't take a back seat to the needs of the government. Our nation was founded, in part, on the concept that the right of the citizens come first, before the needs of the government, and that the government was, and still is, a instrument of the citizens will and wishes. Here, outside military and national emergencies, our goverment can not "pass laws" or alter exsisting laws without the consent of the people. [/quote] *cough cough* "Patriot Act" *cough cough* Actually Ed, The entire post that the above was excerpted from, was pretty darn good, overall, but I have to take minor exception to the actual worth of the language above, simply for the strong capability of the spinmeisters promulgating our policy to "trump up" any set of perceived conditions they feel "threatened" by. The post 9/11 pandemonium being the latest good example, in which our government quickly saw good reason to start cutting the bill of rights (our most sacred document) to shreds, in the spirit of "responding to the emergency", and to quickly brand ANY opposed 9to the new priority)as being "unamerican". In a nut shell, it goes; "surrender your freedoms so that it will be easier to protect you" and a surprising quantity of citizens are ready to say "OK" without really even thinking about it. Lets not forget who declares the "state of emergency" in the first place, creating the environment within which any "emergency measures" in response can be rubberstamped into existance. Under a hypothetical total meltdown of UP,..how long do you think it would take our leaders to declare a state of emergency, IF they had a mind to do so and an agenda to dismantle they wished to pursue? I would imagine the 10 oclock news would be full of loops showing produce rotting in freight cars, and electric utilities running dangerously low on coal to burn, and expect American Living rooms would be full of demands for action, about the time subsequent electric rations caused rolling blackouts in conflict with Prime time TV...
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