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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Solon who wrote (41205)11/13/2005 4:58:13 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
It is supposed to be a wonderful thing for young kids to sacrifice their lives for fat cats on the golf course.
Is that what those guys at Vimy Ridge did?

BTW, what WERE you doing in that war? Germany didn't attack Canada. Isn't that the only justification for war?

Or were those poor slobs fighting for something else maybe- -say, the preservation of representative democracy?

BTW, I think the deeds of our soldiers will speak for themselves and require no defense by me or anyone else.

The LORDS will always manipulate the serfs.
How would you organize society? I think some guys named Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, tried the collectivist approach. We know where this led.

Provided these contracts are democratically initiated they are voluntary.
I hate to tell you this, but the United States, in spite of claims by Soup, et al, to the contrary, is a democracy. Why are our agreements seemingly exempted from that blessing?

The game of subsidies and whining is another matter.
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It is a failing of democracy which is perhaps best remedied through Constitutional legalese...
We have the legalese.
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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