Quote from Gringinho:
fearless9,
An "enemy within" is powerless as long as he is "out of the loop" in the system. And technical systems are not fused into humans - they are SEPARATE - i.e human error in a technical system is impossible -- ultimately: corruption, fraud, greed is impossible BY DESIGN.
Am I right or am I right?
You may well be right or wrong that is not the issue that bothers me.
What bothers me is that when you exclude a part of society and especially a part that you know to have different cultural values then you are playing a dangerous game.
When the Blacks had no say in the British, French and Belgian African colonies you guarantee an unpleasant outcome for yourselves .
Israel has determined it's own fate so long as Palestinians are denied access to their homelands.
US was promised civil war by African Americans denied the vote.
The gov realising that they were on a "hiding to nothing", in fact went too far in the opposite direction thus jepardising another law abiding sector of the community, in their search to appease.
The list goes on and on.
If minority cultures occupy the same land within a synthetic political regime (which is most countries these days) then they must be permitted into that society and bear the same rights to meet the law and pay taxes.
The sooner all parties are committed and stand to lose a part of their gains each time they transgress, then the sooner they begin to nourish their society even though they are culturally diverse.
Is'nt this a founding cornerstone of US.
Leave them out in the cold and they have nothing to lose.
Fill the heads of the young ones with absurd notions and you have real trouble.
The great problem today is that disenfranchised groups in one corner of the world can spread their grievances to another corner of the world by establishing a commonality where it should'nt exist.
If you had to give it a name you might chose "The Bush Doctrine"
The problem here is that BD is meant to flow in one direction only.
Funnily enough the Brits handed out Christianity in return for raw commodities and as an added sweetener they handed out British Passports.
Who could have ever believed that a few decades later London would have Jamaicans working on their buses in the middle of a typical English winter all because their British passport entitled them to do so.
So, no I cannot say whether you are right (or wrong) G, because we must hold differing values.
regards
f9
