03-03-2006, 03:04 PM
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#15 (permalink)
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Lover - Protector - Teacher
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Transcriibed by moi:
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"Do you see how when you, yknow, you look at this definition, where do you see in this definition that capitalism will provide everybody in the world with the basic needs that they need. Is that part of this system? Do you see how this economic system is at ODDS with humanity, at ODDS with caring and compassion, its at ODDS with human rights?"
[This is a bit much.. very communisitic and quite doomsday..]
"Where does this cycle of violence END, yknow? This whole do as I say, not as I do thing, doesn't work.
[SNIP, begins talking about Bush's State of the Union ]
Whats so important about President Bush' speech last night, and it doesn't matter if it was President Clinton still, it would be just as important. Its that its not just a speech to America, its a speech to who?
The whole world! Its very obvious, if you listen to his language, if you listen to his body language and if you paid attention to what he was saying, he wasn't always talking to us, he was talking the whole planet! Threatening the whole planet. He started off his speech saying that America should be the country that dominates the world -- that we've been blessed essentially by God to have the most civilized, most advanced, best system, and that its our duty as Americans to use the military to go out into the world and make the world like us. <pause> Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say.. We're the only ones who are right, everyone else is backwards, and its our job to conquer the world and make sure they live just like we want them to. I'm not saying Bush and Hitler are exactly the same. Obviously they're, not, ..... k? But there's some eerie similarities to the tones that they use. Very very ethNOcentric, right? We're right, you're all wrong. I just keep waiting.. I mean I think at some point in time America and Mexico might go to war again. Anytime the USA plays Mexico in a soccer match, what can be heard chanted all game long? "
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I encourage you all to listen to what the teacher said. I think it's all valid.. you may or may not based on your political feelings, but based on his treatment of the student's questions and his qualifying remarks.. "I'm not saying they're exactly the same, they're obviously NOT, okay.." I found his argument to be sound and rational. He drew ONE comparison between us and Hitler and it brought all of this to a standstill?
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