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    When caveman "Bogg" stepped out of his hole in the rocks, his main objective was to kill something to eat.  Secondly, he had to protect "Ogg" his mate, as wives had not been invented yet, so he rolled a rock over the opening of his hole (caves also not invented yet).  Ogg, being left behind, was likely the forerunner of the Mate Liberation Movement.  Bogg had chosen this hole as it was near water, and food was plentiful. Bogg was still bruised from his encounter with last nights dinner, being somewhat resourceful, he determined to take a bigger stick to the hunt. Rummaging  through a burned fire pit, he selected a large stick with an unusually sharp point on one end.  As the recognition of weapon improvement settled into his mind, a grin had to have appeared on his face. At this juncture, the term "jab in the ass with a sharp stick" must have been invented.
    Selecting a good bush to hide behind near the waterhole, Bogg began his wait for dinner. He noticed movement and to his surprise a being like himself took position to hunt.  A luckless deer came near the other being and was immediately bludgeoned to the ground. Faced with going hungry that night, Bogg decided to take the other being's kill.  After bashing each other for some time, the other being ran off.  Government had just been invented........the unproductive was
rewarded with a deer for minimum effort and a show of force.

    The elements of this above senario should be self evident even to the dimmest wit, they being; Survival,  Property Protection, Better Weapons, and Getting something for nothing.

    WE as a civilized society look upon this time in history with disdain, after all, "WE are civilized"  and they were UNCIVILIZED.    Fast forward several millennia.......

    The Romans conquered the majority of Europe..
    Ghengis Khan took Europe away from the Romans..
    Russians, English, Spanish, and Portugese claimed Europe and the rest of the world.
    Americans supposedly threw the English out..
    Americans threw the Mexicans (Spanish) out..
    Hitler, Japan, and Italy  decided to conquer the world...bad move
    Hussin, Kadaffi, Kamir Rouge, North Korea, North VietNam, Bosnia, Checknya, South
    Africa.........and on and on....
For us "Civilized" American folk, we are running around the world trying  to give these poor ignorant countries a new form of slavery..(er..government). and for the time being we are winning, because we have more and bigger sharp sticks..

    The problem lies not with the common folk, it lies with Governments.  Power and money hungry politicians have schemed to enslave the masses since the beginning of time.  Government
and Religion have killed more common folk than any plague with the time honored excuse...
"we know what is best for you" .  Ah yes, eyebrows raise at the mention of religion, but, have
you heard the terms; Inquisition, Crusades, Witch Hunts, or Ethnic Cleansing...??? Are the missionaries going to teach the ignorant natives real history of the rack, beheadings, branding, burning at the stake, or mass executions in order to save someone from themselves.....even nations have not escaped the crusades of the 1900's .

    Common Folk should be about tired of giving up God given freedom, privacy, property, sons and daughters to wars and programs created by the ruling heirarchy, and being forced through threat, coercion, and intimidation to pay for it...... "for our own good".

     All forms of Government  have a traditional self-destructing history; that being,  Republican, Democratic, Socialist(communist), and Revolution.......... At this point the solution is usually in order, as the problem has been stated....but..... A Revolution would be UNcivilized .!!

   Nothing has changed since Bogg stuck his head out of his hole..Centuries of the same old
silver tongued politicians and traitorous governments.  Our hero Bogg would probabaly preferred that he be "left the hell alone" near his water hole with his sharp stick.

Boiling Ed