Quote:Hmmmm.... I guess it's okay for the mall to sell the t-shirt, and displayed in the store, but you better not wear it. Makes alot of sense.
The Victoria's Secret at the mall here sells a lot of clothing, and I'll bet 95% of it is stuff that you couldn't wear (in view, uncovered) in the mall without being asked to leave.
See there? Makes perfect sense when you take time to
think about it.
perception, no one is depressed here. It is called "gallows humor."
Kara wrote:
I disagree with you that the freedoms that we enjoy from our constitution are based only on a piece of paper and are meaningless unless backed up by force, unless you mean that we need the police to protect sign-wavers from other sign-wavers. Yes, we need a police force to maintain the public order. But you seemed to be saying, in effect, that a democratic system of government could not be maintained in a country without a standing army. [/quote]
Kara, I know from our PMs you are a good person, highly educated, and well meaning but I find your naivete startling. Why do you think our constitution has provisions for a "standing army"? Perhaps your reply will yield some clue to our basic differences of opinion.
Kara wrote:Quote:It should be borne in mind that it is the soldier and his rifle, not the protestor and his placard, that ensures the right of the protestor to carry his placard. It always has been and will be thus.
timber, it is our country's democratic form of government and our Constitution that guarantees us the right to protest.
1) This country is not a democracy.
2) Our system of government exists only so long as we defend it.
War Mongers on the prowl again - up to old Abuzz games <sigh>
Kara wrote:Quote:2) Our system of government exists only so long as we defend it.
Tres, what do you mean by this? Defend it how?
Militarily, of course. This has always been true of every nation on Earth. History is rife with examples of vibrant civilizations which no longer exist because they were unable or unwilling to defend their way of life against those who either wanted what they had or simply wanted to deny them what they had.
Kara
Very clever answering a question with a question-----
I believe that this country would cease to exist almost overnight if we did not have our powerful military----and ----the will to use it.
Clinton for one did not have the "will" to use it when UBL attacked the first time.
Kara,
Far too depressed today to start any hostile discussions, besides there seems to be one starting up all by itself
nil carborundum
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Seems poor old Charlie is beginning to regret his attacks on the Holywood glitterati
"...who will pay for the satisfaction of war?"
That is such a great question, Gelisgesti! I'm going to recommend for a sign at Saturday's White House demonstration.
And from "the devil's dictionary":
Quote:LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Devil's dictionary?!
Walter - trust there's no connection to your previous quote (from Psalms, if memory serves) describing Jonas and the whale:
"Deep calleth unto deep
At the noise of thy waterspouts
All thy waves and thy billows
Are gone over me"
This may be turning into a crusade after all, but I didn't start it <G>
While things were getting a bit edgey on this thread a little while
ago, I would have to say the folks involved recovered quickly.
Good job.
timber :wink:
"It should be borne in mind that it is the soldier and his rifle, not the protestor and his placard, that ensures the right of the protestor to carry his placard. It always has been and will be thus." (Timber)
It should be borne in mind that it is those unpaid and loyal protesters who, by insisting on upholding the Constitution, treaties and law, are making sure that we will continue to enjoy our life, security, prosperity, and a well-funded defensive military capability. In fact, we no longer depend on "soldiers" and "rifles" -- once volunteers -- but rather on leaders who can order a "shock and awe" assault with "weapons of mass destruction," causing relatively little loss of life to ourselves and great destruction to the victims. When those leaders have shown themselves to be inexperienced or dishonest, doing everything they can to circumvent and change the law, threatening other nations without due cause and substituting preemptive strike for negotiation, we have to try to stop them. That is the honorable citizen's responsibility.
Dyslexia and Kara, Your posts have been wonderful. You are ahead in the argument, of course, but you do it so nicely!
