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Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 May 2004 22:04:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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At least, that’s a possibility of some of these
‘insurgents’. Maybe they think of themselves a ‘freedom fighters’.
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I know, I know. I promised myself I’d try to stay away from .debate.
But this freedom fighter thing got me thinking. What’s a freedom
fighter? Who gets to decide? Were the IRA ever called freedom fighters?
How are they generally perceived in Canada and Europe? A force for good,
or a villianous gang?
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Congratulations!
You’ve just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we’re right, the enemy is
wrong. We’re brave, the enemy is villanous. We’ll win, the enemy will lose.
We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he’s the enemy, again?
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So if it really is all that muddy then what drives certain people
http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/
to post their opinion on it over and over and over and over and over,
driving me nuts. I mean, I look at his background there and I don’t see
anything that says “crazy person who posts propaganda to toy forums”.
Can’t we just admit that the world is a crappy place and we come here
to get away from it? How about a self imposed rule that says no more
than one new topic per person per week in .debate unless it’s somehow
lego related? How about another one that says you must contribute
*something* to a thread outside of .debate in order to gain entry to
the tar pit? I don’t know. Maybe I just need a break from lugnet.
Don
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote: <snip> (...) Scott, is that you? I knew you were pretty smart but my goodness! Nicely done. Now you're teaching? Shaping the minds of the younger generation? ;) Dave K (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I suppose there are 2 types of people: Those who accept the world is a crappy place. Those who want to do something about it. Which are you? As an aside, would I bother you less if I were pro-Bush? Scott A (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Congratulations! You've just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we're right, the enemy is wrong. We're brave, the enemy is villanous. We'll win, the enemy will lose. We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he's the enemy, (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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