[TheForge] Disgusting Ironwork(Going OT)

[Andy Vida]

As I'm cleaning out the inbox, I reread this.  Not to stir the pot, or
anything...

Phlip wrote:
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > Regardless of who is in power, I doubt governments in general are
> > ,ultimately, very good parasites.
> >
> > As institutions I doubt they have the wit, NOT to kill the host.
> >
> > Mike Graf
> 
> Well, if you look down through history, you'll realize that there's hope- if
> the get annoying enough, they get overthrown,

	Not sure this can happen now, but I hope I'm wrong.  My
	concern is for technological thresholds.  Those on top,
	I have precious little doubt, are treacherous enough to
	use whatever means are at their disposal to remove any
	threat to them.  This includes a lot of technology that
	is very effective.  A good friend with whom I attended
	US Davis, his father worked for Lawrence Livermore Labs.
	He told us about weapons they had developed that most
	people wouldn't even believe possible.  One was a hard
	X-ray laser configured as a beacon to radiate in a programmed
	arc.  Instant retinal destruction.  According to G's
	dad, it was shelved when human rights organizations caught
	wind of its existence.  Shelved doesn't mean "lost" or
	destroyed.  If a mass civil insurrection became a reality,
	do you think "they" would hesitate to resurrect such
	devices to quell the threat to their dominion?  I don't.

	An insurrection would proabably be very inconvenient, but
	I don't think it would threaten the power trust unless
	the military jumped ship, and that is the one wildcard
	that remains.