Post #160,026
6/15/04 3:35:19 PM
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Great, except it's a lie
We said here ages ago that this was a criminal matter - so why did we start a war?
And we've pointed out all the innocent people who are jailed and the otherwise generally corrupt state of "justice", starting with Mr. Ashcroft and ending with the overzealous beat Barney to whom the People are the Enemy.
So that speech makes me sick. That kind of freedom may have existed once, but it sure as hell doesn't now, and it isn't getting better. The judges themselves and the corrupt system they steward, the self-satisfied masters of expediency who make these "rousing" speeches, are the greatest acidic eroders of freedom that ever breathed.
I am not afraid of Mr Reid and his criminal ilk. I am terrified of getting impaled on my own country's idea of "justice".
-drl
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Post #160,027
6/15/04 3:46:31 PM
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"I love my country - I fear my government"
I feel that way too - but not ALL judges are the same - nor is every cop a "beat barney".
I've known good cops and just judges in my life - though I DO admit they are in the minority.
Because they are, that makes good decisions and opinions, and yes, even speeches, that much more precious and praiseworthy.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #160,028
6/15/04 3:47:02 PM
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Artist = terrierist
[link|http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-artist15jun15,1,6614853.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials|http://www.latimes.c...omment-editorials]
Now sing me songs of flags and freedoms.
-drl
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Post #160,029
6/15/04 3:48:42 PM
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Reagan/Bush I legacy is what we're seeing.
It is a shame what the courts have become with all those Neoconderthal judicial appointments.
bcnu,
Mikem
If you can read this, you are not the President.
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Post #160,037
6/15/04 4:32:08 PM
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Wimps.. now in the Good Old days
When HUAC was protectin us from explosive materials on the written page - in the days of My Gramma and many more o'them Stirrin Speeches about Freedom, Liberty and th'Murican Way -
Why, Men were Men. You flash that paperback copy of The Commyunist Manifesto thing and .. well, Folks Knew What to Do. Yessir no pussyfooting around ('specially if'n ya was a nigra a wantin to register! to vote [!] or say you was preggsie and you wanted somethin besides a coat-hanger - say because you was 15 and it was Daddy's? or somethin. No Siree, girl! - ya Face It like a Man! and ya gets two, TWO for One: a new brother AND a son.)
Yeah, that judge's little homily kinda makes one o' those LUMPS -- why, it brings back.. brings back.. that teensy-little gap 'twixt Fine Fanciful Palaver and the Guts to ever make it mean somethin. Like: when there's a Risk to Say Them Things, amidst the lynchin party with yer buds (?)
We need to revisit our heroes like Citizen Cohn, n' the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. And Larry Parks. And Ronald Reagan - a real Patriotic Murican what tried to hep ol HUAC to Clean Up Hollywood, the old fashined way: by informin about stuff heard by someone about someone .. at parties n'stuff.
THEY'd know what to do with some prissy activist "artist", a plottin and a conspirin to Change the Good-ol USA with them fancy exhibits. And all them intellekkshull words and stuff. Hmmm 'Kurtz' - is that a Jewish name?
Hail Columbia,
The Gem of the Ocean
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Post #160,031
6/15/04 3:49:57 PM
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Cue the brass & strings playing softly in the background...
I have listened respectfully to what you have to
say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask
yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to
do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of
doing. And I have an answer for you. It may not
satisfy you. But as I search this entire record, it
comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that is most
precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual
freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we
choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or
not believe as we individually choose. Here, in
this society, the very winds carry freedom. They
carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is
because we prize individual freedom so much that you
are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that
everyone can see, truly see that justice is
administered fairly, individually, and discretely.
It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are
striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed
appeals, will go on in their representation of you
before other judges. Nicely said. Now convince me that you mean any of it! I'm waiting...... jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #160,034
6/15/04 4:24:37 PM
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Missing from Arkadiy's link is:
From [link|http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/31/reid.transcript/|CNN] after the judge had his say: REID: That flag will be brought down on the Day of Judgment and you will see in front of your Lord and my Lord and then we will know. (Whereupon the defendant was removed from the courtroom.)
YOUNG: We'll recess. All rise. So, there is a "war" of beliefs. Yeah, "war" is not the quite the right word, but it's tough to ignore the dead and find a better one. And if you are not afraid of Reid and his ilk, then why have you said you would not fly on an airplane again? As far as the US government goes, you're right, it has moved in the wrong direction. But, it is still not beyond repair. Did you register to vote in GA? Alex
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
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Post #160,053
6/15/04 7:03:45 PM
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Re: Missing from Arkadiy's link is:
Alex said:
So, there is a "war" of beliefs. Yeah, "war" is not the quite the right word, but it's tough to ignore the dead and find a better one.
One doens't wage war on robbers, rapists, and murderers. You find them and arrest them, and kill them if needed.
And if you are not afraid of Reid and his ilk, then why have you said you would not fly on an airplane again?
I'm just freaked out by being torn to pieces by flying metal, terrorist-induced or not. 9/11 changed me.
As far as the US government goes, you're right, it has moved in the wrong direction. But, it is still not beyond repair.
I'm not so sanguine. I just saw another in an endless line of conservatives (read: radicals) running for Ga. Senate seats - rambling on as usual about filling the jails and the war on terror. Slack jowled, beady/watery-eyed, baby-kissing jackoff.
Did you register to vote in GA?
Hell no! I'm a citizen of the state of Missouri and always will be, unless I can convince Europe to have me.
I wouldn't move back here permanently for any reason.
-drl
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