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 ScavengerType
 
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 Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention  [Re: Seuss]
#8830529 - 08/26/08 02:34 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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are you gonna build a reputation for quoting me out of context or what here? It's not like I was fully serious.
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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
- Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now.
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Seuss
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: ScavengerType]
#8830538 - 08/26/08 02:37 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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In this case, I did not quote you out of context. Did it sound like my answer was fully serious? I usually add a (sarcasm) tag, but I thought this one was pretty obvious.
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: Seuss]
#8830612 - 08/26/08 02:57 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Seuss said:
> Why bother debating if you're going to deliberately chop off half the quote?
To be honest, that was where I quit reading. I saw the claim that only a few people own property and immediately dismissed the rest of your statement as not worth reading. Apologies. Going back and re-reading, I realize that the rest of your statement, which I ignored, qualified the part that I quoted.
I shoulda known. Damn you Seuss! 
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 EntheogenicPeace
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: Gastronomicus]
#8831269 - 08/26/08 05:51 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Have you ever been to a protest 
No. I think that they are (largely) a waste of time, especially today. When the only coverage you get is a bunch of dumbasses yelling "Fuck Fox News!" repeatedly, what have you accomplished? If anything, you turn more moderate people away from anti-war views, in this case.
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"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth; you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead."
- Oglala Lakota medicine man Black Elk, reflecting on the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre
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lonestar2004
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#8831344 - 08/26/08 06:08 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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EntheogenicPeace said:
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Have you ever been to a protest
No. I think that they are (largely) a waste of time, especially today. When the only coverage you get is a bunch of dumbasses yelling "Fuck Fox News!" repeatedly, what have you accomplished? If anything, you turn more moderate people away from anti-war views, in this case.
Masked protesters shout slogans near the Pepsi Center, site of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado August 24, 2008.
http://search.us.reuters.com/query/?s=USPHOTOS&q=denver+protesters
this guy would "turn moderate people away" ? 
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America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure"
We have "reckless fiscal policies"
America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Americans deserve better
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: lonestar2004]
#8832025 - 08/26/08 08:42 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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EP sometimes the most important moments in history are widely ignored by the media and obscure in intellectual literature.
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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
- Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now.
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ScavengerType
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Re: Protesters confront Fox News Reporter at Obama's Denver Convention [Re: ScavengerType]
#8837477 - 08/27/08 08:15 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?"
"The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done—dare I say it—in the name of God. Montesquieu said, "There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of God." And I begin to feel that’s true. The shareholder is the excuse for everything."
- Author and former M6/M5 agent John le Carré on Democracy Now.
Conquer's Club
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