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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on December 21, 2003, 10:01:52 pm

Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: an0n on December 21, 2003, 10:01:52 pm: Quote
An hour later, a handful of military vehicles returned, one carrying the U.S.-backed regional governor Hussein al-Jaburi, while a recording of his voice boomed a warning to would-be Saddam loyalists.

"Any demonstration against the government or coalition forces will be fired upon," Jaburi's voice said, according to an army interpreter. "This is a fair warning."

Clicky Clicky (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=423620§ion=news)

And they wonder why people shoot at them.......
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: mikhael on December 21, 2003, 10:28:05 pm: Yeah. We're really good at 'freeing' people, aren't we?

There was a political cartoon in a local paper the other day that had a muslim running for a ballot box whilst Bush chased him down in a jeep trying to stop him from voting.

I hate seeing my country abrogate its principles so thoroughly. Not that we ever maintain them these days.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: Bobboau on December 21, 2003, 11:41:44 pm: now that they should not be doing, there has to be a better way to controle that reagon. hell they could use the demonstrations aganst these people, by keeping trak of the people who demonstrate. how is the demonstrations them selves going to hurt anything? I doubt there going to change anyones minds, but our stopping them might
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: aldo_14 on December 22, 2003, 04:19:05 am: Freedom for all!
(except those who disagree with us, of course)
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: Kosh on December 23, 2003, 12:30:12 am: Typical. The Axis of Hypocrisy strikes again.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: Carl on December 23, 2003, 12:32:13 am: eeeenteresting. i don't know the specifics of it, though.

though, it seems to me that they are doing it because they believe it will turn violent. protection > rights, you know.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: Kosh on December 23, 2003, 12:43:05 am: Quote
protection > rights, you know.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

-Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: mikhael on December 23, 2003, 01:50:32 am: Actually, I've always seen that as:

"Those who would trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither." -- Ben Franklin.

I keep it, and others like it in my sig for a very good reason. ;)
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: an0n on December 23, 2003, 03:45:05 am: I prefer my version:

"Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Kill all the parissioners. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!" ---- an0n
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: Fineus on December 23, 2003, 04:15:26 am: To many exclamation marks.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: an0n on December 23, 2003, 06:39:49 am: It's supposed to convey a kind of manic blood-lust.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: magatsu1 on December 23, 2003, 11:42:40 am: Quote
You can't hand out lollipops. It doesn't work

well duh.:wtf:

do you think they tried that already ?
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 23, 2003, 11:47:55 am: This actually quite a fun little website:

(http://www.protestwarrior.com/images/posters/sign_04.jpg)
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: deep_eyes on December 23, 2003, 02:47:42 pm: funny the quote in the begining... i agree. if u gonna step up, u gonna get laid out lmao. its time to grow up children (that being those loyalists stuck in the middle ages).
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: karajorma on December 23, 2003, 02:57:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
This actually quite a fun little website:

The problem with that website is that the people are very good at identifying the problem and then coming up with the worst possible solution for it :) It's so tragic that it's almost funny.
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 23, 2003, 03:23:27 pm: No... I just get really annoyed by hippies
Title: Liberty, Freedom and Justice for all; Except you, and you, and you.........
Post by: karajorma on December 23, 2003, 04:23:11 pm: They piss me off too. Especially since most of them stop being hippies and then become the problem they spent so long complaining about.