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Originally Posted by Plan9
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It doesn't matter that he's dead (or off being interrogated somewhere). He won his war. We cowered and changed our way of life.
All the "freedoms" we talk about defending we gave up to give ourselves the illusion of safety. We won't get that freedom back.
A decade of dead/crippled kids and a gajillion dollars that would have been better spent on education or bouncy castles... gone.
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I've thunk this thunk many a time the last decade. Wondered at the wondrous hypocrisy that has us get knotted up over personal expression and the right to think and dress and act the way we wish, side by side with the real life destruction and dismissal of hard earned rights and freedoms. The whining is coupled with the terrible morass of "security" that is such a brake on our lives, our wealth and our energy. Of course hypocrisy and indignation is being expressed by fundamentalists of all stripes, backgrounds and inclinations.
The complete inability of people everywhere to just let each other be sometimes staggers the mind. What evolutionary quirk has resulted in this universal bullshit we shovel all over each other? I mean, we have been pulling this crap since we were squabbling over cave rights with the Neanderthal. Enough already, people.
sheesh