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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 11:32 AM

    -- ethics_professor

    Surely Liberal Uber Alles' (I mean Electro's) post at 10:23 merits deletion in spite of it being O/T.

    -- ethics_professor

    Although the post was apparently deleted, I disagree.

    That single post demonstrated perfectly the complete and total lack of legitimate argument that many, if not all, of our beloved trolls and other rightwing shills have in their support of the Bush/Cheney reign of terror on the world.

    Had that post lead to a breakdown of the continuity of the thread, perhaps a case could be made for deleting it but it didn't because it didn't generate the expected response.

    If, in fact, it was made by someone with a history of spamming the board with nothing but inane degenerate comments, Electro or Thrasher for instance, then deleting would be appropriate but the infantile language of the post itself, should not be cause for deletion simply because that type of post is educational.

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