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honestchipmunk · 09-03-2004, 01:00 PM

Check out this article on dissent: http://www.religionwriters.com/publi...03/040703a.doc

note the quote by Teddy Roosevelt:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Dissent and criticism are desperately necessary, especially for a country founded by religious and political dissenters! The lack of political cohesion may make you angry but bear in mind the alternatives, where we would have to go along with what the government did, or be punished. What needs to come up in politics to aid our country is a truer sense of compromise between opposing views, not blind faith in whoever has power.

09-03-2004, 01:00 PM	#15 (permalink)
honestchipmunk Upright	Check out this article on dissent: http://www.religionwriters.com/publi...03/040703a.doc note the quote by Teddy Roosevelt: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Dissent and criticism are desperately necessary, especially for a country founded by religious and political dissenters! The lack of political cohesion may make you angry but bear in mind the alternatives, where we would have to go along with what the government did, or be punished. What needs to come up in politics to aid our country is a truer sense of compromise between opposing views, not blind faith in whoever has power. __________________ I'm only a ghost, the breeze on your face when you first smell the coast.