That's the point right there

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Post #192,138

by jake123

1/28/05 5:46:22 PM

That's the point right there

There is democracy, and there is liberty; they are not the same, and are often in conflict. It's about how those conflicts are resolved when they arise that show the quality of a nation's character.

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Post #192,340

by mmoffitt

1/31/05 8:20:37 AM

1/31/05 8:21:12 AM

And we haven't been doing too well on that score, have we?

bcnu,
Mikem

Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)

Edited by mmoffitt Jan. 31, 2005, 08:21:12 AM EST

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Little girl drew mustache on a piture of Stalin - (Arkadiy) - (44) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:17:51 AM EST

Heh... -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:21:14 AM EST

Consider what this says - (jake123) - (42) - Jan. 26, 2005, 12:08:49 PM EST

I did. - (Arkadiy) - (7) - Jan. 26, 2005, 12:26:41 PM EST

Which begs the question... - (xtensive) - (5) - Jan. 26, 2005, 12:48:11 PM EST

Or, more interestingly, if - (Arkadiy) - (4) - Jan. 26, 2005, 02:03:38 PM EST

Dunno 'bout Ashton, but I'd give 'em a high five. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:24:59 PM EST

Yep. That's what I though. -NT - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:33:08 PM EST

Ever see the movie, 'Forbidden Games' ? - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2005, 09:42:55 PM EST

"Your question was what _?" Indeed. -NT - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 27, 2005, 09:17:01 AM EST

Is there a difference? - (jake123) - Jan. 26, 2005, 01:04:04 PM EST

Did you read the article? - (tuberculosis) - (33) - Jan. 26, 2005, 02:57:24 PM EST

Intervention - yes. Handcuffs - no. - (Arkadiy) - (28) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:17:28 PM EST

Maybe to the psychiatric hospital then? - (mmoffitt) - (24) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:26:33 PM EST

I don't know what will work - (Arkadiy) - (23) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:32:38 PM EST

Some things about the old guard weren't that bad. - (mmoffitt) - (22) - Jan. 26, 2005, 03:50:44 PM EST

You're getting worse. - (Arkadiy) - (21) - Jan. 26, 2005, 04:08:43 PM EST

ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk) - Jan. 26, 2005, 10:28:38 PM EST

Oh BTW - (Arkadiy) - (19) - Jan. 27, 2005, 10:28:18 AM EST

How terribly witty. - (mmoffitt) - (18) - Jan. 27, 2005, 01:09:21 PM EST

And, BTW. - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 27, 2005, 01:13:16 PM EST

Well, how is it bullshit? - (Arkadiy) - (16) - Jan. 27, 2005, 02:30:46 PM EST

Worse, he's beginning to look a lot like Bush - (Simon_Jester) - (14) - Jan. 27, 2005, 03:44:56 PM EST

I guess so... -NT - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 27, 2005, 03:51:06 PM EST

So, you're comfortable with a democracy that yields a Bush.. - (mmoffitt) - (12) - Jan. 27, 2005, 04:32:00 PM EST

I'll take Bush over Hussein or Stalin, ten times over - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Jan. 27, 2005, 04:42:00 PM EST

Perhaps. - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Jan. 28, 2005, 09:04:55 AM EST

About labels and absolutes.. - (hnick) - (2) - Jan. 28, 2005, 09:38:54 AM EST

I think that'd be giving him more credit than is due. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Jan. 28, 2005, 10:19:36 AM EST

Distrust and disgust are fine - (hnick) - Jan. 28, 2005, 11:23:40 AM EST

And that goes back to my argument - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 28, 2005, 09:41:48 AM EST

Democracy is a risk.... - (Simon_Jester) - (5) - Jan. 28, 2005, 01:29:19 PM EST

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." :-D -NT - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Jan. 28, 2005, 02:08:50 PM EST

That's the point right there - (jake123) - (1) - Jan. 28, 2005, 05:46:22 PM EST

And we haven't been doing too well on that score, have we? -NT - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 31, 2005, 08:21:12 AM EST

"Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Feb. 2, 2005, 12:19:17 AM EST

Wasn't he paraphrasing Cicero? - (Another Scott) - Feb. 2, 2005, 12:33:40 AM EST

I don't think democracy is a "lie". - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 27, 2005, 04:31:21 PM EST

Agree'd - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Jan. 26, 2005, 04:41:46 PM EST

Working on it: this decade, non-Corp\ufffd drugs___next, heresy. -NT - (Ashton) - Jan. 26, 2005, 09:50:07 PM EST

Huh??? What kind of apostrophymania is *this*, now?!? -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 27, 2005, 02:55:07 AM EST

Another version of the story. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Jan. 26, 2005, 10:11:06 PM EST

knowing the redness of the ocala cops necks - (daemon) - Jan. 26, 2005, 11:03:06 PM EST

And this would be a bad thing? - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2005, 08:10:56 AM EST

Yes, it would. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 27, 2005, 08:34:33 AM EST

Terribly excessive - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - Jan. 26, 2005, 01:10:17 PM EST

Worse than that. - (bepatient) - (2) - Jan. 26, 2005, 02:00:18 PM EST

Can't blame them, really. - (jake123) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2005, 04:56:33 PM EST

Insurance.. is that not just another Corporation? - (Ashton) - Jan. 26, 2005, 10:07:55 PM EST

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