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Post #15,856
by Arkadiy
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10/31/01 10:09:16 AM
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New End of nation
If your sentiment is a prevalent one, this nation is done for. What's coming to replace it is hideous beyond imagination.

You know, suicide might be a sin for nations as well as people. I still have some hope that we can dpull back from the abiss of becoming a copy of fundamentalists _after_ defeating them. I have no hope of them becoming similar to us after their victory. Not in next 500 years.
Post #16,123
by marlowe
11/1/01 8:24:38 PM
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New About pulling back from the abyss
That's what checks and balances are for. Both legal and cultural.

That's why our judicial branch is independent of the executive and legislative branches. And if they sell us down the river, there's civil disobdience, and something about the right of the peopel to overthrow the government.

And if that doesn't work, well, at least our culture went down fighting. And may rise again. But right now, we need to fight terrorists. We don't have a choice about that. We fight them, or they kill us, and our way of life goes away, its memory disgraced, so that it cannot rise again.

We've pulled back from abysses before. Slavery. The Great Depression. HUAC. The LBJ administration. We can probably do it again.

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Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
     This is disgusting - (cwbrenn) - (28) - Oct. 30, 2001, 08:37:36 AM EST
         Wrong - (Arkadiy) - (21) - Oct. 30, 2001, 09:47:14 AM EST
             I'm going to disagree for the block. - (addison) - (20) - Oct. 30, 2001, 10:29:24 AM EST
                 Re: I'm going to disagree for the block. - (Arkadiy) - (14) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:00:58 AM EST
                     Yeah, don't worry about it. - (cwbrenn) - (2) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:03:27 AM EST
                         Sorry about that. - (cwbrenn) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:08:02 AM EST
                         No, it's not happening to me. - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:12:07 AM EST
                     What was the penalty for being gay in the military? - (boxley) - (2) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:10:52 AM EST
                         Huh? -NT - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:13:56 AM EST
                             I remember during the Breznev? era OT I know - (boxley) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:35:50 AM EST
                     Re: I'm going to disagree for the block. - (addison) - (7) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:12:33 AM EST
                         So far, FBI seems to have - (Arkadiy) - (6) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:42:18 AM EST
                             Re: So far, FBI seems to have - (addison) - (4) - Oct. 30, 2001, 12:09:02 PM EST
                                 That is the fear of mine. - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Oct. 30, 2001, 01:53:37 PM EST
                                     If that's the choice we should disappear - (cwbrenn) - (2) - Oct. 30, 2001, 09:34:08 PM EST
                                         End of nation - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Oct. 31, 2001, 10:09:16 AM EST
                                             About pulling back from the abyss - (marlowe) - Nov. 1, 2001, 08:24:38 PM EST
                             How old are you? - (jb4) - Nov. 1, 2001, 09:52:12 AM EST
                 Exactly. - (cwbrenn) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:02:14 AM EST
                 POWs - (Simon_Jester) - (3) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:11:57 AM EST
                     Well... - (addison) - (2) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:14:14 AM EST
                         I good mullah might be a better approach - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:43:34 AM EST
                             Somehow I don't think that will make a difference. - (inthane-chan) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:58:49 AM EST
         If they try this on citizens... - (marlowe) - (3) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:47:11 AM EST
             Depends on the citizens.... - (Another Scott) - (2) - Oct. 30, 2001, 11:56:28 AM EST
                 Re: Depends on the citizens.... - (addison) - Oct. 30, 2001, 12:11:23 PM EST
                 Re: Depends on the citizens.... - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 30, 2001, 02:15:04 PM EST
         This IS how It Begins, Kameraden - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 30, 2001, 05:33:41 PM EST
             Dibs on the BAR, have ya got a tripod? -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 30, 2001, 09:37:16 PM EST

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