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Re: Where is the justice?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:18:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote a lot, and I chose to pick on
just one sentence, out of context:

There are worse things than totalitarianism.

Care to elaborate? I mean, in my view, the very WORST thing about the Bush
admininstration is that it is facilitating the slide of the US toward
totalitarianism (as you point out in part of the part I snipped)...

I have a hard time reconciling that view of mine with the notion you put forth
that there are worse things than totalitarianism.  What are they?



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Where is the justice?
 
(...) Well Bush's support for totalitarianism in places like Uzbekistan is one. Scott A (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Where is the justice?
 
(...) Many folks would count death, starvation, those sorts of things, as worse than totalitarianism. It is only the fact that the vast majority of folks count other things as worse that lets totalitarianism survive, as it always has survived, and (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Where is the justice?
 
(...) Theocracy (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Where is the justice?
 
(...) No reason to suspect this. As I recall Scott has some serious reservations about some of the things the UN has done. I think he was talking about Bush Jr, the current US President and Leader of the Free World. (...) Perhaps you could watch (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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