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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (12514)	3/7/2006 2:22:06 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Don > The unwritten rule is that nonconformity is the ultimate crime. ...and obedience to authority the highest virtue. amazon.com en.wikipedia.org >>I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.<<

To: Don Earl who wrote (12514)	3/7/2006 6:36:57 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

Don > We start school at age 5, and for the following 13 years are taught that the United States is a free country, with a free press, and that elected representatives represent the citizens of the country. The practice of teaching children that their particular culture, clan, tribe or nation is the best of the best is pretty much standard fare throughout the world. The atrocities are glossed over, or eliminated altogether ..... Looks like these American kids slipped through the system -- unlike their elders, they seem to be able to think for themselves. dailyrecord.com >>The war crimes "trial" of President Bush in a Parsippany High School classroom is expected to conclude today with additional defense testimony from the student playing Bush, but controversy over the project is continuing. "It clearly crossed a line," school board member Frank Calabria said Monday of the mock tribunal, in which Bush is charged with "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners." Calabria said he will be asking some questions --"What occurred, how did it happen, why did it happen and exactly what are the ramifications"--when the board meets on Thursday. "We're polarizing people in an area that we shouldn't be," said Calabria, who is running for re-election in April. Mayor Michael Luther also criticized the trial on Monday, saying it "breeds disrespect to accuse the commander-in-chief of being a war criminal."<<

To: Don Earl who wrote (12514)	3/9/2006 4:40:16 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Re: We start school at age 5, and for the following 13 years are taught that the United States is a free country, with a free press, and that elected representatives represent the citizens of the country. I much doubt things are significantly different in any other country. Indeed! The Flag, the Bible, and the Apple Pie!! The problem, however, is that ONLY the US is run by a Judeo-Protestant clique that REALLY believes that Americans are "God's Chosen People"... Somehow, Americans' ideological clock is stopped somewhere in the late 19th century... Ideologically speaking, Americans turned out to be the Amish freaks() of the Western world.... groven.no Gus () religioustolerance.org