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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 12:26 PM

    Some eedjit wrote:

    [reznit eedjit Sh**ter]: So killing twenty Jews by rocket is OK, but not twenty Arabs by interrogation?

    Make you a deal, Sh**ter. You find the blog that has said that, and we'll applaud your going over there to tell them they're full'o'it.

    Fair 'nuff?

    Don't let the door slam your a$$ on the way out.

    Cheers,

    P.S. to Glenn: Is this verging on "obsessive"/"repeatedly defamatory" behaviour worthy of simply trashing? At what point do we say, "You've restated your false and defamatory claims twenty times. Three generations of imbecile comments is enough. We're sterilizing you..."?

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