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joule on June 24, 2006 - 4:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
avalon -

Yes, it is indeed interesting to contemplate all the things that weren't here 100 years ago.

To put a bit of political and societal spin on this exercise, here are a few of my own, in no particular order:

  • No Department of Homeland Security

  • No FBI

  • No CIA

  • No War on Drugs

  • No police SWAT teams

  • No for-profit prisons

  • No surveillance cameras in public places

  • No IRS ( no income tax)

  • No War on Terrorism

  • No (almost) Federal involvement in local law enforcement

  • No government data bases on private citizens

  • No wire tapping, data mining

  • No Total Information Awareness program

  • No AIDS

  • No military-industrial complex and no massive 'defense' budget

  • No powerful Israeli lobby unduly influencing US foreign policy (no Israel)

  • No imported oil and all the problems thereof

  • No SUVs, cell phones, iPods, rap music, etc

I could go on and on, but I think you see my point -
we have gained much but we have also lost much.
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Pogo on June 24, 2006 - 6:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You overlooked population.There was 200 million
fewer of us a hundred years ago.
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Oilrig medic on June 24, 2006 - 11:15pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
No civil rights existed then either. Women and minorities were second class in many regions.  You give up your philosopy easily.  All the negatives you state above pale in comparison to a lynch mob       ing a black man in the deep south or the child who dies of polio.

No Department of Homeland Security
   Do we not need this?
No FBI
   100 years ago a       er could flee unpursued across state lines

No CIA
   We had spies since the revolutionary war
No War on      
    see above
No police SWAT teams
    Special Weapons and Tactics to deal with heavily armed criminals.
No for-profit prisons
    Everything id profit don't kid yourself.
No surveillance cameras in public places
    Why is this bad? If you are not commiting a crime what does it matter?  Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.  Since so many have none this insures someone is looking.
No IRS ( no income tax)
    I don't like taxes either.
No War on       ism
    Chicken or egg?
No (almost) Federal involvement in local law enforcement
   As southern sherrifs turned blind eyes and attended clan meetings
No government data bases on private citizens
    No computers
No wire tapping, data mining
  ""
No Total Information Awareness program
   ""
No AIDS
   No aliens in roswell either
No military-industrial complex and no massive 'defense' budget

No powerful Israeli lobby unduly influencing US foreign policy (no Israel)

No imported oil and all the problems thereof

No SUVs, cell phones, iPods, rap music

I blame rap

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