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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
A series of coincidences may look like an orchestrated war machine to you, but when you are dealing with a population hundreds of millions, it may be an optical illusion.
This isn't the thread for this.
Okay, so you think that things in the U.S. are just like they are in, say, North Korea. Okay, thanks.
I think we're done here.
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we were done when you considered the voluminous amounts of police misconduct as 'isolated' incidents.
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Originally Posted by Martian
Y'know, just once I'd like to see a thread in Politics not be completely derailed by dksuddeth's beef with the US government. For a change of pace.
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just so we're very clear here, I have not hijacked every political thread with my beef over the US government. I would appreciate it very much if you could keep my number of postings in context with everyone elses, realizing that I RARELY derail threads with my beefs. thank you.
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Originally Posted by Martian
The only way the western world has of helping those who are in such dire need is through political pressure -- the Amnesty International condemnation is a vehicle to make that happen.
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political pressure will do nothing for these people. It hasn't worked in China. It didn't work in Iraq. It didn't work in North Korea, and it will not work in Iran. As stated above, these totalitarian powers are more concerned with their own control over their own people than they are with how they will be accepted politically by other nations.
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Originally Posted by Martian
Direct action begets more violence.
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and sometimes direct action is the ONLY thing accomplishes anything. I refer you to our own history.