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 Evolving
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 Students for an Orwellian Society 
#2463736 - 03/23/04 12:37 PM (20 years, 29 days ago) |
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Why? Because 2004 is 20 years too late.
Check out their web site here.
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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.' Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence. Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains. Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.
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afoaf
CEO DBK?
Registered: 11/08/02
Posts: 32,665
Loc: Ripple's Heart
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Re: Students for an Orwellian Society [Re: Evolving]
#2463759 - 03/23/04 12:47 PM (20 years, 29 days ago) |
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hilarious!
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All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.
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silversoul7
Chill the FuckOut!
Registered: 10/10/02
Posts: 27,301
Loc: mndfreeze's puppet army
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Re: Students for an Orwellian Society [Re: Evolving]
#2463760 - 03/23/04 12:47 PM (20 years, 29 days ago) |
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I am concerned by the thoughtcrime on this message board.
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire
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 Baby_Hitler
Errorist
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 27,652
Loc: To the limit!
Last seen: 1 hour, 31 minutes
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Re: Students for an Orwellian Society [Re: Evolving]
#2463944 - 03/23/04 01:55 PM (20 years, 29 days ago) |
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http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc120801.html
Even an innocuous trip to the Post Office can you get you into trouble these days.
Daniel Muller, is the co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a group dedicated to nonviolence and a leading opponent of U.S. sanctions against Iraq.
On November 9, Muller and his colleague Andrew Mandell went to pick up stamps at the Chicago post office they regularly visit. They were paying with cash.
"We needed 4,000 stamps for a mailing we were doing, and I asked for ones not with the American flag on them."
The woman asked if Statute of liberty stamps were OK.
"Yes, we love liberty," said Andrew Mandell.
"She asked us to step aside from the counter, and she went to the back, out of view," recalls Muller. "I knew something was up because this was a bit out of the ordinary. And Andrew said, 'She's calling the cops,' but I didn't believe him.
"No one said anything to us for about twenty minutes, and then two cops came in and asked for our IDs. They asked if we had any outstanding warrants. They ran a check on us. They asked us why we had asked for stamps without American flags on them. I said we're very rooted in nonviolent activities, and we would rather have the Statue of Liberty than the American flag."
The Post Office told Muller and Mandell that they would have to come back the next morning for stamps.
Mandell got his stamps the next day, but he also was asked to meet with a federal postal inspector for more than a half-hour. The postal inspector, says Mandell, asked: "Why are you paying with cash? Where do you get your money?"
Afterwards, the group was permitted to send out its mailing.
"The fact that they did ask for anything but flag stamps did raise a question for the clerk," says Silvia Carrier, a public relations officer for the U.S. Postal Inspector in Chicago. Plus, "They were buying postage with a large amount of cash, and usually a company will use a meter or a business check. Right now, since September 11, clerks have been told to be cautious, to be looking out for anything suspicious."
-- Matthew Rothschild
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This space for rent
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thescientist
Registered: 03/09/02
Posts: 807
Loc: Dade County
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Re: Students for an Orwellian Society [Re: Evolving]
#2466042 - 03/24/04 12:14 AM (20 years, 28 days ago) |
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awsome post, that site is damn funny.
sticker production is up 300% on the year. LMAO
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