Armstead
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Fri May-12-06 01:00 PM
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To the 63 Percent...It's NOT a choice between Freedom and Death. |
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Edited on Fri May-12-06 01:03 PM by Armstead
Anyone who thinks we should sell out our freedom and privacy and democracy for some illusionary protection is a lilly livered coward.
Anyone who is in the 63 percent in that stupid Washington Post poll who approve of Big Brother falls into that category.
To anyone who wants to enable that crap, the old conservative adage applies. "You're not an American and you should leave and move to some dictatorship, if that's the way you want to live.
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Fri May-12-06 01:02 PM
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Union Thug
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Fri May-12-06 01:44 PM
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8. Spot on. Bushbots need authority... |
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they are psychologically predispositioned to require an authoritative big daddy to protect them fwum a skaaaaweee world of monsters and bad guys, and other assorted horrors.
This is why conservatives need religion. This is why conservatives have a love affair with fascism.
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Fri May-12-06 01:19 PM
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2. "The man who trades freedom for security... |
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...does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." -- Benjamin Franklin
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Armstead
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Fri May-12-06 01:20 PM
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3. It's a shame we have to keep re-lerning that lesson. |
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I hope we can rectify it before it's too late this time.
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Fri May-12-06 01:54 PM
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9. At least get the quote right |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Franklin http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote04.htm
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Fri May-12-06 01:24 PM
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4. We're AMERICANS, dammit! |
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Y'know, the "land of the free and the home of the brave", remember? "Give me Liberty, or give me death?" any of this ring a bell???
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Armstead
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Fri May-12-06 01:27 PM
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But too many others seem to have become lilly livered scardeycats.
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Fri May-12-06 01:33 PM
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6. The more entrenched in power these bozos |
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become-- the more they are able to send us and our children to our deaths through disastrous wars, etc...
I am a LOT more afraid of Bush than I am of bin Laden.
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Fri May-12-06 01:38 PM
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7. As Samuel Adams would have said, may your chains set lightly upon you. |
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Fri May-12-06 06:29 PM
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10. As Armstead says: "Maybe Americans deserve that if they stand for this.' |
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