03-27-2006, 05:55 AM | #121 | |
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03-27-2006, 10:16 AM | #122 | |
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03-27-2006, 06:30 PM | #123 | |
Read? I only know how to write.
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Hell - why read when Americans are physically teaching Iraqis the definition of democracy - including a president who can lie repeatedly and almost everyone in the Cellar even stays silent. Democracy is about a president who declares "Mission Accomplished" as the country is looted. Why read Locke when the definition is better found in legalized kidnapping and death squads lead even by police commanders. |
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03-27-2006, 10:32 PM | #124 | |
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Come to think of it, tw, what do you want to bet that Jr. hasn't read the "Rights of Man," either? In fact, I bet if we were to call him up right now - pop quiz time - and ask him who Thomas Paine was, he wouldn't know, much less recognize the names Locke and Hume.
People, even "purveyors of antidemocracy" learn by example. You don't torture a man while reading him the Declaration of Independence and expect him to beleive you were serious about those words, or think for a moment that he will feel anything but contempt for that document if he ever sees it afterwards. I don't know where the hell UG got his "moral authority" to make pronouncements for the rest of us. In the future, if he is going to make statements about the so-called "rightness" of his blind endorcement of torture, the killing of innocents, and the imposition of a foreign military regime by the US on another nation, he needs to have the integrity to stop hiding behind "we, the people" and, instead use the word "I." Example: Quote:
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