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Re: Eh, what's a few dollars amongst friends...
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Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:23:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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Basically, bottom line, for all your talk of gun-toting yahooness about
‘defending the constitution and freedom’ and all that supposed ‘high ideals’,
y’all are nothing but a bunch of sheep.
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The two ideas are not really related.
An informed citizenry does not automatically follow just because of the mere
existence of civil rights. The existence of civil rights should help one be
an informed citizen, but it is in no way a political necessity because of such
rights. In fact, the seeming protections afforded by such civil rights might
even be said to make the people lazy in defending those very civil rights --
look at Patriot Acts I and II, it’s as if the people thought they could protect
something fundamental by abandoning it to the whims of the current white house
administration. There’s some kind of pretense that just because it’s written in
the Constitution that we can someday return to our civil rights. You know, when
this all important “terrorist” crisis -- requiring all of our energy and
resources -- is over. Straight out of Orwell’s 1984 is this never-ending war
on terror.
And yeah, the $87 billion -- I can think of better ways to spend it “in country”
instead of wasting it on a foreign soil against an imagined enemy or just
dropping it into the waiting coffers of the administration’s favorite private
corporations.
For the Nth time: this is not america -- certainly NOT the U.S. of my
political forebearers. We are being idealogically, and plain old economically,
swindled by the far right -- and even the near middle left pretends not to
notice.
It’s not precisely that we are sheep, but that we are too few. A recent poll
suggested that something like 70% of americans STILL believe in a connection
between A.Q. and S. H. -- I mean, seriously, how much dumber can the average
american be and still walk and chew gum at the same time? Perhaps they can’t...?
-- Richard
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: <snip> (...) Can you then explain to me how Watergate happened, which, as far as I can see, was relatively benign in the 'grand scheme of things', got a president kicked out of office, and yet the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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