absolute_power dafremen Strange..isn't it? We create positions like politician and policeman that provide those who fill them with access to power and the ability to "get around" accountability... Then we wonder why these positions attact so many power hungry people that don't like to be held accountable for their actions. Hey..you wanna catch flies? Use honey. Don't hate them...after all...these are our OWN worst tendencies...left unchecked. 060504 ... u24 i'm sorry, say that again, who created the position of politician? I thought for a moment that you were saying such positions of power are endorsed by society at large, but you can't have meant that.. can you? PS: hi, where've you been? 060504 ... daf Why do we seem so shocked when politicians lie, businessmen are greedy and police are abusive? Is it that by pointing out their exaggerated indiscretions we hope for relief from the conscience-driven echoes of our own? Our civic leaders are professional truth benders, career gold diggers and packs of athletic(or not-so-athletic) brutes with s. If these are our leaders, where exactly is this society headed? 060516 ... daf this blathe was censored by the software. the single letter S up above should read g u n s. 060516 ... [...] ________ is a myth. 060516 ... Arwyn in rome... they called it the power of imperium... just thought I'd share. 060622 ... epitome of incomprehensibility The absolute_power of 4^-1 is 4 and not 1/4? 141207 ... e_o_i Somehow Orwell's 1984 is not the best thing to reread on a depressing Saturday morning. Still, I don't think absolute political power exists in the real world. On the other hand, neither would absolute political freedom. 141207 ... smurfus rex 12 years ago we had a much different fear about what authority figures with absolute power were capable of... Now we are seeing it playing out in real time. I wonder how many of us would trade the society we had in 2006 for the society we have today? WWDS? (what would dafreman say?) 181225 ... unhinged someone smarter than me once said: absolute power corrupts absolutely 181225 what's it to you? who go blather from