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From: Adam Fikso <irisman at AMERITECH.NET>
Subject: Re: draconian etc
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Thank you Erik.  It is very much as that old Louisiana crooked politician
Huey Long  once said: ( Fairly accurate paraphrase)--When fascism comes t=o
America it will be draped in the American flag.  Crooked though he was, h=e
had his values, even if he was a democrat, and he knew which side his bre=ad
was buttered on.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Nemeton Design" <nemeton_design at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: draconian etc


> As Adam advised...."be warned", and also be smart, study history and
> notice trends in societies' regression towards autocratic control and
> fascism, resume some responsibility over your government employees (all
> are paid by taxes lest everyone forget), and like it or not....be
> political. I am aware that this may seem off-topic for AEG-ers, but fac=e
> it, there is no such thing as an apolitical position....pretence at
> no-politics is actually a political stand.
>
> So in the interest of botanists, gardeners, the plants and their surviv=al,
> truely free markets, the little guy (up against the multinationals who =can
> move plants VERY freely beyond certain minimum trade levels), and
> returning the world towards some kind of intelligent progression toward=s
> communication and goodwill, get organised, join with others, and make s=ome
> noise about this where it will be heard. As many of you know, this is b=ut
> the tip of a very dangerous and ugly iceberg now grinding into the cent=re
> of the hull of the supertanker America.
>
> Make noise while you still are allowed to use your voices at all.
>
> Erik in Dublin, keen gardener and student of history.
>
> .................................................
> ..............................................
> Date:    Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:03:57 -0500
> From:    Adam Fikso <irisman at AMERITECH.NET>
> Subject: Re: importing seeds and plants
>
> Well said, Barry.  You left out only the likelihood that anyone who has
> had
> seeds confiscated-- may well now have  his or her name on a "watch list="
> Hopefully they will not put it on a "no fly" list , which has happened =to
> a
> few others sometimes just because of a name similarity.
>
> The computer age makes all kinds of constraints, restrictions and
> punishments possible. Sometimes a mild paranoia is healthy.  Be warned.
>
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