bill,
when democracy dies, no thread will be about the theft of our collective futures. How can we be happy to be victim of the destruction of your liberties?
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." "Power must never be trusted without a check." "Democracies die behind closed doors." -- John Adams
"When government fear the people democracy thrives. Whe the people fear the government, tyranny thrives." -- John Quincy Adams
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." --Dwight Eisenhower, 1961
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --George W. Bush, 12/18/00
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Even the dim bulbs on this thread must notice where we are headed.
Are we a nation of idiots? Can we afford a ridiculous parasite like George Bush sucking up all our wealth? |
