Our Liberal Fasciest Friends

I had the wrong page up there. I had edit HTML. You know today we are so upset by the latest news from George Bush and this republican administration. We now hear that Newt says that "The CIA and the state department are out to get George Bush and this is why they issued that statement about Iran not having NUKES since 2003". They say the reason why Iran gave up the idea of getting nukes in 2003 is because we were bombing the hell out of Iraq in 2003 and they were afraid. So fear apparently works. That still doesn't explain why Bush lied about it and said they still were developing nukes in 2007. Now we hear that the CIA destroyed enhanced interrogation tapes of prisoners. Apparently this was fruitful torture that revealed many terrorist secrets. But I think Bush learned long ago that no matter what he does or says the democrats aren't going to do anything about other than continue to pass bills that further restrict our Civil Rights. But the thing is that a year from now this will all be water under the bridge. It will ammount to exactly nothing in the big scheme of things, other than as stepping stones for historians to look back at and say "at this juncture the American people decided they didn't care about their rights any more". Complaining about all this is like tryint to resserect the dead.

I'm leaning in a bit of a Ron Paul direction. Someone may ask me "Just of what religion are you?" My answer is different from people like Romney or Dennis Prager. Both Romney and Prager speak glowingly of some generic "Brand X religion" that the whole country should adopt. I disagree. My view of the Constitution is the view of Thomas Jefferson, and John Kennedy and Thom Hartman. Other people speak of certain rights that are granted or NOT granted under the Constitution. Jack Kennedy said that our rights come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. The same might be true of a person on welfare. His money in reality doesn't come from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. Excuse me for that side trail. Thomas Jefferson said that human rights come from our Creator. Among these rights are the pursuit of happiness. And let me tell you; there are a lot of religions out there that interfere with my pursuit of happiness. Thom Hartman states that We the People formed this constitution. Therefore since We the People were endowed with all rights from the hand of God, we volentarily surrender up some of out perogatives to the comon good or "The Commons" as Hartman says. We contract with each other to form a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We believe in the rule of law, and insofar as the supreme court respects the rule of law, I'll respect it. Remembering that no man is above the law and no man is beneathe it. The Bible says "You shall not favor the rich man in his law suit; neither shall you favor the poor man in his suit". I think you have some kind of idea from these statements the sort of government in this country I consider ideal. But there are some with fasciest leanings that would extend government beyond its proper bounds. We have been wary of such people in the past.

A little history lesson. If you don't know the answer make your best guess. Answer all the questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...... And to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We) ...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

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Answers

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

Be afraid, Be very afraid!