Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26222 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 20:52:32 -0000 Received: from murphys.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.225) by mailstore with SMTP; 15 May 2003 20:52:32 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 8858 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 20:52:16 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by murphys.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 15 May 2003 20:52:16 -0000 X-SQ: A Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 19GPha-0007QF-35 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:51:46 +0100 Received: from [205.188.157.37] (helo=imo-d05.mx.aol.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19GPhV-0007Py-ED for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 21:51:41 +0100 Received: from WarmSpgs@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.22.) id l.1cc.998159e (3310) for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 16:50:40 -0400 (EDT) From: WarmSpgs@aol.com Message-ID: <1cc.998159e.2bf5579f@aol.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:50:39 EDT To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 120 Subject: Re: LF: No US Ham Band Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,NO_REAL_NAMEversion=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false In a message dated 5/15/03 8:19:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, DK8KW@compuserve.com writes: << Obviously more and more of some government's decisions are directly influenced by the power of industries and large companies! >> It reminds me of a time several years ago, Geri, when a reporter on our National Public Radio network was interviewing a guest about the collapse of the Soviet Union. She remarked that the Russian people had lived under a communist government for many years, while we had a capitalist form of government throughout our history. I exclaimed to my radio: "You silly cow!" (I meant it in only the nicest possible sense, of course.) "Capitalism is our economic system. The last time I read the Constitution, I could swear our form of government was representative democracy." But in retrospect, perhaps she was right after all. John