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Here we go again... dead detainee cover up at "The Salt Pit"
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: saint on March 06, 2005, 11:14:32 am ---Bill knows better and should be ashamed of himself.
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While I agree with your statement in it's entirety, shame will not stop him from doing it. This sort of condemnation, of those who disagree w/ America's policies, as terrorist sympathizers, is coming from some of the deepest levels of the right-wing media machine. It's being encouraged and it will only continue, if not grow worse.
It's loathsome, and un-American. In fact, threatening those you'd desire to silence by accusing them of being traitors, and/or terrorists, is in fact, a terrorist methodology. It cheapens the dialog and muddies the water. It sickens me, and Godwin be damned.
This sort of fascist behavior was prevalent in the lead-up to Nazism in pre-war Germany. I also find it an astonishing parallel that the right-wing extremists in Germany started with the discrimination of homosexuals and moved on from there.
Now, am I calling the Republicans Nazis?? I ask you all look at this behavior and you be the judge. It certainly seems to me to be step in that direction.
The right-wing rants against the "communist/pinko/terrorist-friendly" left, often reminds me of the below passage:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niem
Santoro:
--- Quote ---That is being contested by the reporter herself.
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So the Italians kept the negotiations secret, tried to fly by checkpoints and expected no problems?http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050307-120131-5769r.htm
What possible motive would we have to purposely ambush an Italian hostage? MrC, do you question any anti US claim?
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 07, 2005, 12:58:00 pm ---First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew
....
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niem
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ChadTower:
No one ever mentioned the Gypsies and several other cultures that were far more thoroughly extinguished than the Jews. That annoys me.
As for being held to a higher standard, I don't care. I want us doing what needs to be done to protect us. This higher standard is crap. We send out trillions of dollars a year in aid, dollars that should be spent here, and yet we get no credit for that. I want those dollars back. Pull the aid, pull the troops from around the world, and let the rest of the planet torch itself so long as it stays 1000 miles from our nearest border.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 07, 2005, 02:16:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 07, 2005, 12:58:00 pm ---First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew
....
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niem
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