Category: Government Structure & Principles
Government Structure and Principles
For the Tea Party there is no such thing as a moderate Republican; no such thing as a loyal opposition; no such thing as compromise. Incumbent Republicans who cast votes of conscience are regarded as Republicans in name only to be summarily excluded from the Party of No and their voices stilled. The Tea Party marches to the beat of a different drummer and those who can’t keep the cadence are banished to the wayside. There is simply no room for individual opinions that point out the contradictions in its shoddily woven platform of slogans that boil down to a resounding “NO!” It is a movement devoted to destruction; to ending, not beginning.
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They call it STUXNET. It is a computer worm, quite sophisticated and apparently aimed at automated control of industrial processes. It is said to intercept commands and switch the effect to the opposite of those intended by the controlling program. For example, a control system might detect a dangerous condition in a nuclear power plant and send a command to increase the flow of cooling water. STUXNETwould intercept the command and order the cooling water pump to shut down. It is, security experts say, the first detected cyber weapon designed to impact and destroy real world systems.
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In 1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote to Jean-Baptiste Leroy saying, "'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." He borrowed and paraphrased the epigram from Daniel Defoe’s A Political History of the Devil published in 1726. Death is an inevitability of life and, so long as human society has been organized into communities, taxation has been an inevitability of human existence in order to finance the community’s common services and improvements.
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