Subject: (Dumpe) Re U.S. cynical about government..... (fwd)
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 121952 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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.....Bert, did you send a copy of the message below???.......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 11:13:15 -0400
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: U.S. cynical about government.....
Roy: A biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig thank you for copying me on this. During
the fiasco of the Telecom Act, Ergotech kept the US Supreme Court (USSC)
informed via copies of filings and comments submitted to the FCC. The USSC
remained silent.
So the statements of USSC Justice Breyer are moot. I just informed his
Court Clerk of this. Furthermore, I indicated that no matter how much the
American people plead with Congress, Justices and other public officials to
listen to our concerns, public officials merely campaign for an office and them
do what is in their self-interest. Right now it is in the self-interest of
public officials to take money from the telecom industry, and promote high-tech
wares. All public officials do is make money while we pay the bills, and suffer
the consequences of their actions. We do not EVEN have a VOICE. To heck with the
people. Do not expect Americans to get excited over our corrupt government. It
cares nothing about the people.
Breyers office asked for a letter of my remarks. Consider it done.
Bert
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"Roy L. Beavers" on 05/04/99 10:58:47 PM
To: Emfguru
cc:
Subject: U.S. cynical about government.....
Hi everybody:
....In the article below, one of our Supreme Court Justices
complains ("worries") about the cynicism of the American public.....
....I suggest that the Supreme Court shares in the blame contributing
to America's cynicism. The court's rulings on "campaign finances"
(equating $$$$$$ to 'free speech') have helped to turn our government over
to the BIG $$$$$$ spenders......
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
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12:31 PM ET 05/04/99
Breyer: America Cynical About Gov't
By RICHARD CARELLI=
Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Americans may be too apathetic or cynical
about their government to bother carrying on the democratic
decision-making the Constitution envisioned, according to Supreme
Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
``I worry about indifference and cynicism because indifference
means nonparticipation and cynicism means a withdrawal of trust,''
Breyer said in a speech prepared for delivery to a Law Day luncheon
of the Tulsa, Okla., Bar Association today.
An advance text of his speech was made available by his office.
``It does not bother me when I read that the public is less
aware of the names of Supreme Court justices than of the Three
Stooges,'' Breyer said.
``But it does bother me when I read that more teen-agers can
name the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of the
federal government; or that three times as many know that '90210'
stands for Beverly Hills than that 'the birthplace of the
Constitution' stands for Philadelphia,'' he said.
Breyer also cited statistics indicating that although 80 percent
of Americans in 1964 said they trusted the government, only 35
percent say so today.
The Constitution, Breyer said, ``creates a method for making
decisions; it then leaves decision-making to the democracy that it
creates.''
``For this reason, too, the Constitution not only foresees
participation by the public, it demands that participation,'' he
said. ``For without trust and participation, the Constitution
cannot work.''
Breyer, 60, joined the nation's highest court in August of 1994
and remains its most junior justice.
``I confess to a few butterflies in my stomach the first year or
two,'' Breyer said. ``Indeed, I keep thinking of a New Yorker
cartoon. ... A circus dog is about to set out, very gingerly, upon
a tightrope while a clown below unfolds a scroll. It says: 'All Rex
could think about when he stepped out upon the high wire was that
he was a very old dog and this was a brand-new trick.'''
The passage of time, Breyer said, has made him less anxious.
``It has given me more experience interpreting the Constitution ...
enabled me to try to develop consistent approaches to its various
parts and begin better to understand the document as an integrated
whole.''
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