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Old 02-09-2008, 15:54 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dalem View Post
The part I don't agree with is the enjoyment of his suffering. That's wrong.

-dale
'ZACKLY; that's what I'm saying to crooks.

crooks, you let the state take away HIS freedom because you don't like his message, and your freedom is no safer. I don't like YOUR message most of the time, and if that's the rules we're all playing by, you better hope like hell I'm never in a position to send the Gestapo to YOUR door at 3AM, buddy.

And if THAT is true, all of a sudden, the levers of power ARE worth killing over, and just like that, your country becomes just another banana republic with a revolving door on the presidential palace, and a peaceful transfer of power is just a quaint notion that died with everybody's freedom to say what they want.
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