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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: ring.of.power
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Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:01:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 11:01:13 1985
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Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nigel Gale)
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Summary: 


And so the Good Guys won their struggle. Once they persuaded the
common folk to their point of view, victory was swift.

The Evil Ring of Power was cast into the Sacred Fire, and the
Middle Earth was free from its corrupting influence forever.

Yet all was not happy in the world.
For there existed a number of horrible beasts of awsome power,
who had been afraid to emerge while the Ring existed. But now,
they crawled out from their lairs and began to wreak devastation
upon the defenceless folk. Each one carved an empire from the
lands that had been held by the Wielder of the Ring, and the
peoples became their slaves, tools to further each Beast's power.
These monsters became known as 'Plutocrats'.

The common people came to realise that they were now worse off
than they had been under the Ring of Power - that while the Ring
had undesirable side-effects on its wielder, its power had its
source in Order and Accountability. Whenever a Ring wielder had
become evil from using it, another wielder had been selected.
But now the Ring was destroyed forever, and it would take centuries
to forge another.

Alas, but that the common folk had only considered more carefully
the arguements of the Good Guys - for now the Beasts of Power
would not relinquish their hold easily.

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The above has been a Party Political Broadcast
on behalf of the Bad Guys.

-Nigel Gale