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To: ManyMoose who wrote (128445)4/5/2004 12:09:48 AM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 281500
 
Exactly one year before he was assassinated,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. summed up what
many feel provoked the September 11th attacks:

The greatest purveyor of violence on the planet,
my own government.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war.
Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

from: The Inner Truth
by: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Riverside Church, New York City, April 4th, 1967

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To: ManyMoose who wrote (128445)4/5/2004 12:12:55 AM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
<The people elect the government here, UNLIKE your Muslim nations. So if you are unhappy with it, go to the polls.>

I'm not a Supreme Court Justice, so my vote didn't count in the last Presidential election.

In 2000, I voted for the guy who ended up getting the most votes (of the citizens, I mean), and I'm still puzzled as to why everyone keeps calling the other guy President.