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God Bless America
GGKoul:
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--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on November 01, 2004, 02:45:57 pm ---Since Bush is the candidate that's for the American people, it's not crap.
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I just saw a nice quote about this:
--- Quote ---In a country where the poor and old cannot afford health care -the economy is falling apart and 3.3 million have been laid off - where 44 million people live on less than $12,000 dollars a year and 5 million people are homeless - where the entire media system is owned by only 6 media mega conglomerates - a country with the highest global crime rate and the world's largest prison population - where 60% of marriages end in divorce, 25% of kids under 12 live in poverty, many thousands can barely read or write and the gulf between the rich and poor is growing everyday - a nation that supports dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Columbia and Turkey - a country where the president is the unelected puppet son of an oil baron who cut 25 billion dollars out of veterans benefits to help pay for a new 'war' - a country with the world's highest teen suicide and stress rates - a society that embraces violence, censors nudity, silences dissenters and promotes hatred, racism and bigotry - a country where the population has a serious weight problem, where anyone can easily buy a gun and where parents put their kids on prozac - a country where the government monitors the library books you read, may enter your home at any time without a search warrant and has convinced the population to live in fear armed with duct tape...the Bush government is telling us our
biggest problem is TERRORISM?"
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God Bless America - it sounds like you need it.
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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on November 01, 2004, 03:25:38 pm ---In NA we have the right to protest via elections. If you don't like the governments stance on an item, you can vote against them in the next election. If you are one that never votes, but complains about the elected official. Your doing nothng to improve the situation.
Also, if people believe it was a stolen election, you would hope more people come out too make sure there's no questions about the winner.
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Down here in America, we have the right to protest via elections too. We also have the right to complain about anything, no matter what. MrC will prove that to you if you just ask him....ask him if Bush stole the last election. He'll prove my point, as well as show patrick that throwing out idiotic statements only serve to cement his "so out there he's not even on the map" status.
We're as free as can be to open our cake-crushers about anything. What we're not free from are the consequences regarding those words. So still, we're free to complain, even if we don't vote.
--- Quote from: patrickl on November 01, 2004, 04:25:52 pm ---Ehm, but then with the Patriot act you might get arrested for protesting.
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You'll have to review our Bill of Rights, our Constitution, and the Patriot Act. Then, you'll have to ask someone to explain them to you. Then, you'll have to admit you have no clue what you're talking about.
If I'm ever threatened with imprisonment due to excercising my right to free speech, I'll just move to France or the Netherlands. ;)
hulkster:
after the elections are over, we can argue over a very controversial topic:
which is better? perky boobs (even though sometimes small) or huge boobs (but not too big)
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on November 01, 2004, 02:50:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: GGKoul on November 01, 2004, 10:40:15 am ---If you don't vote, then you have no right to complain afterwards.
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That's where you are completely, totally 100% wrong. If we have the right to burn the flag in protest, we most assuredly have the right to complain, whether we voted or not.
It may seem like a small point to you, but people in other countries get killed for voicing displeasure about their country and its "elections". In America, we have the right to complain, and for years, about a "stolen" election.
We most definitely have the right to complain.
:P
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You're right. You literally have the right to complain.
But your complaint is pointless, and has no merit.
It's kind of like people who sit on their couch all day and eat bon bons, then complain that they're fat.
--NipsMG
Dexter:
--- Quote from: hulkster on November 02, 2004, 08:42:23 am ---after the elections are over, we can argue over a very controversial topic:
which is better? perky boobs (even though sometimes small) or huge boobs (but not too big)
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Hmm, I'm a fan of both which I guess places me somewhere in between :D