{"article":{"id":138366,"heading":"Information for the Layman","author":"Paul Balmer","created":"2005-11-01 16:18:03","modified":"2005-11-01 16:18:03","last_modified":"Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:18:03","article":"<p>Please select the web site URL link for more information.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/CapitolHill\/Senate\/4417\/mywork.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"&quot;It's usually just ambition that puts them into it--and like any group of people selected for ambition and nothing else, they turn out to be a pretty bad lot. Like mandarins in China, colonial administrators in the British Empire, lawyers in old North America ... --individually there are decent people who do some good, but as a class they are amoral, vicious leeches with a good cover story.&quot;\r\n\r\n A Million Open Doors, John Barnes, (Tor Books (paper), New York, N.Y., 1992), p. 138 ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/11\/138366.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}