Letters to the Editor
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Well at least you admit you tilt at windmills
That's fine, it's entertaining. I remember reading a biography from an officer in the French Foreign Legion. He noted "The difference between the French and the Germans is that Germans tilt at windmills and think they are giants. The French tilt and windmills but know they are windmills and believe someone should tilt at them."
Censorship really isn't the issue. You can all defend Glenn all day long if that is your druthers. No the issue is that you prefer to never hear anything that clouds that perfect unicorn land of rock candy mountains you call a world view. New ideas in America are dead and the Internet helped kill them.
Go ahead, LWM - go speak for the masses like you think is your blessed mantle. Feel free. But don't bang your ego on the doorframe.
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Taliesan
Hay Bud, Limbaugh and and Chaney each drink 18- cans of Old Milwaukee Light at the Vice-Pea's Palace?
Figure:
Why GO with Opus or Owen to a Pub if you can GO with Chaney and them Libs lover-boys and get skunk drunk slop-faced, and smooch at the stolen Palace.
huh.
It cost as much for one beer
in a "liberal" Boston Pub, son.
huh.
bastards.
Ben Franklin- "Nothing has ever hurt me so much and affected me with such keen Sensations, as to find myself deserted in my old age by my son (shooter242): and, not only deserted, but to find him taking up Arms against me, in a Cause, wherein my good Fame, Fortune, and Life were all at Stake."
August 16, 1784.
shooter242-frigate.
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Boston Customs official John Malcomb claimed the dubious honor of being the first American tarred and feathered for loyalty to England. He endured the treatment in Maine in 1774 and again in Boston in 1775 for his persistence in collecting import taxes and showing off his prickly demeanor. On the night of January 25, 1775, a mob broke into Malcolm's house, stripped him of his breeches, and covered him in (N.J. rt-wg pine-bogs) hot pine tar and goose feathers. As a protest against British tea laws, the mob forced 12 bowls (waterboarding) of tea down Malcolm's throat, making him toast a different British official each time. After repeated floggings (Alamo), many loyalist submitted to demands they curse the royal governor.
John Malcomb was not the only victim of this brutal but popular method of terrorizing Loyalist.
Gads. Times change?
I'd be careful what I advocate. Do unto others and it boomerangs back at you? The angry patriots even held a "lit candle to the feathers and the GOP then was set on fire."
- I just wonder too, what the future will bring forth in America in a few years? I say try to practice non-violence, Limbaugh, shooter242, and Chaney. Put a twig of mountain laurel in the tea? Oh me, o my.
I'd say: Do what to lib others?
Do unto them what may come back at you?
Who knows. It is war time presently, now,
and the Bush Loyalist sow nasty thistle war-seed.
I'd stay kind and friendly. Do unto other what you want them to be some day doing what YOU Advocate done to shooter242?
I tease. And also serious. Be wise.
But I'd worry? I'd not pour tea or cheap beer or do it.
Somebody might, shooter242? I'd hope not.
Be careful if ya's pass via Boston or DC.
Gads I gone to pass via Boston real soon.
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@Mona and William - Chirping Sectaries
We are all libertarians here. It's true that to someone like Russell Kirk we might be perceived as the "chirping sectaries" of an "an ideological clique forever splitting into sects still smaller and odder" but what did he know? He didn't even allow there were libertarians on the left, yet compared the ones he recognized on the right to Satan. He never wrote about economics - much less concerned himself with it - except to rail against collectivism while comparing democracy to despotism. So screw him.
Now that was truly funny.
-- -Mona-
Glad you got a chuckle out it, fellow secularist and "Satanist".
No Salvation like the courage to write the truth.
Writing the Truth
Five Difficulties
Bertolt Brecht
1935
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the cunning to spread the truth amongsuch persons. These are formidable problems for writers living under Fascism, but they exist also for those writers who have fled or been exiled; they exist even for writers working in countries where civil liberty prevails.
1. The Courage to Write the Truth
It seems obvious that whoever writes should write the truth in the sense that he ought not to suppress or conceal truth or write something deliberately untrue. He ought not to cringe before the powerful, nor betray the weak. It is, of course, very hard not to cringe before the powerful, and it is highly advantageous to betray the weak. To displease the possessors means to become one of the dispossessed. To renounce payment for work may be the equivalent of giving up the work, and to decline fame when it is offered by the mighty may mean to decline it forever. This takes courage. Times of extreme oppression are usually times when there is much talk about high and lofty matters. At such times it takes courage to write of low and ignoble matters such as food and shelter for workers; it takes courage when everyone else is ranting about the vital importance of sacrifice. When all sorts of honors are showered upon the peasants it takes courage to speak of machines and good stock feeds which would lighten their honorable labor. When every radio station is blaring that a man without knowledge or education is better than one who has studied, it takes courage to ask: better for whom? When all the talk is of perfect and imperfect races, it takes courage to ask whether it is not hunger and ignorance and war that produce deformities...
http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/theater/brecht/fiveDifficulties.pdf
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~George Orwell