Civil Disobedience

[Michael Fisher]

That's great news, Kat.  210 Gitmo prisoners of war show the world the true value of fasting.  They also show us what the US is all about by refusing to cooperate with their captors.   

[Michael Fisher]

Twenty-one protesters were hospitalized at the prison's clinic due to their deteriorated health and, according to the spokesman, 20 of them are being administered saline solutions.

This is why you must consume water and salt during a fast.  You need salt intake as much as you need water.  Your body needs salt to stabilize blood flow and your brain needs it for signal processing.  A water and salt fast is a pure fast by most standards.

[Russell Kanning]

isn't the point of fasting like that to die slowly?

[Michael Fisher]

isn't the point of fasting like that to die slowly?

Yes.

[Pat K]

Well they can't allow the serfs into the masters meeting ,now can they?

[Michael Fisher]

I just finished an interview with Larry of The Wire.  They're doing a front page feature on the FSP soon. 
He also asked for some of our pictures from the outlaw manicure event.

This should be interesting! 

[Kat Kanning]

He's welcome to use any photos on the underground.

[tracysaboe]

isn't the point of fasting like that to die slowly?

Yes.

Actually a fast that goes longer then 3 days, and even as long as 30, can actually be quite cleansing and benificial.

Tracy

[Michael Fisher]

Is it time yet for an anti-postal monopoly civil disobedience?? ?? Spooner never went as far as breaking the law to create a Private Postal Express.? It would be a novel act of civil disobedience.? ?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050927/ap_on_go_ot/postal

Postal Service Expects $2B Deficit in '06

Tue Sep 27,12:26 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Even with a planned postage rate increase, the Postal Service expects to go nearly $2 billion in the red next year.

Postal Chief Financial Officer Richard J. Strasser told the agency's board of governors on Tuesday that rising costs will result in a $1.8 billion deficiency in 2006.

The agency plans a 5.4 percent rate increase in January, which would raise the cost of sending a first-class letter by two cents ? to 39 cents.

"We project revenue of $72.3 billion, an increase of 3.4 percent, to be offset by a like percentage increase in expenses," he said.

Strasser said the agency plans cost reductions of $1.1 billion, including work-hour reductions of 42 million hours. But, he noted, the post office also faces a congressionally imposed requirement to place $3.1 billion in an escrow account.

Strasser also noted that costs are now expected to be higher than originally planned when the rate increase was approved by the board

The postal fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

At the meeting the board also approved a transformation plan for the agency through 2010.

"We will continue to reduce costs by improving efficiency in all our operational and business processes," said Postmaster General John E. Potter. "We will bring service performance to even higher levels. We will use the best technology to make the mail a rich source of information both for our customers and our operations managers. We will achieve all this with an energized, customer-focused work force."

Board Chairman Jim Miller noted that the constantly changing business world affects the post office.

"We cannot predict how events halfway around the world, or in our own backyard, will affect our costs. We cannot predict the final form of postal reform legislation ? or even if it will occur," he said. "But we can do our best to prepare for the impact of these external factors. We understand that our plan must be dynamic and adaptable. It must help us manage and succeed through periods of uncertainty."

[Pat McCotter]

...
But, he noted, the post office also faces a congressionally imposed requirement to place $3.1 billion in an escrow account.
...

Why does Congress want this? Is it another "account" they can raid?

[BillG]

That's the problem with socialism. In this case, city-wide water socialism. If private entities competing in a free market were providing water and sewage services, then there wouldn't be a water shortage. Rates would rise and lower and supply and demand changed.

In other words, in a free market Fisher would be perfectly free to water his lawn. It would just cost him about twice as much money. -- Actually id would probably be about the same, because private companies don't have all the beurocratic largass that government sponsored monopolies have. Plus the competition would drive prices down ones it was free-marketized.

Tracy

all the surface water over 20 acres and all the underground water is owned in common with the state as the public trustee in NH.

[tracysaboe]

Yeah, you keep telling yourself that Bill.

Tracy

[Russell Kanning]

Been reading Tolstoy lately ..... he talks about how neither violent revolution nor gradualism within the system has ever worked .... only the simple refusal of people to work for or with an evil system can succeed.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Things certainly worked out in his country.

[Michael Fisher]

Things certainly worked out in his country.

Tolstoy had more influence over India than Russia, primarily because of Gandhi.

Will Russia ever have a Gandhi of its own?  I hope so, but I doubt it.  That country has been a despotism from the beginning of time.