| Orm Laplunk 2005-01-16, 5:45 pm |
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"Anonymous" <r@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "pete" <pete@maildox.com> wrote in message
> news:p7hku0lg9jjfemn08c5kfs8ldnj8d6g083@
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> My dear friend pete (pete@maildox.com)
>
> I am merely posting quotes from a website and exercising my freedom of
> speech.
>
> Anyways, I am posting the urls again for your infinite pleasure. Please
READ
> THE WHOLE WEBSITE THOROUGHLY and enlighten yourself :--)))
>
> Don't hate me for posting this information, remember Jesus taught us to
love
> other human beings and our religion christianity is called "religion of
> love" not for no reason :--)))
>
>
> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/FBI_watch.html
>
> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/C...ThirdWorld.html
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> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A...tions_page.html
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> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/NSA_page.html
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> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/N...less_State.html
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> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/S..._Stockwell.html
>
> America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose
our
> freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
> Abraham Lincoln
>
>
> I wonder how many americans can even understand the following quote.
>
> "The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
> indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as
> such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This
> obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many
> individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the
> truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a
> good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident
> common sense."
> David Edwards
>
> "Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the
> world."
> Neil Postman
>
> This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of
> years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so
corrupted
> as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
> Benjamin Franklin
>
> America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose
our
> freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
> Abraham Lincoln
>
> "Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our
> name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,
> ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with
our
> votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence.
> If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we
in
> effect endorse them."
> Mark Hertzgaard
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin, 1759
>
> Individuals have international duties which transcend the national
> obligations of obedience ... Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty
> to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from
> occurring."
> Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 1950
>
> The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what
Americans
> think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda
accomplishments
> of the dominant political mythology. "
> Michael Parenti
> "The United States is no longer the nation its citizens once thought: a
> place, unlike most others in the world, free from censorship and thought
> police, where people can say what they want, when they want to, about
their
> government... Until the citizens of this land aggressively defend their
> First Amendment rights of free speech, there is little hope that the march
> to censorship will be reversed. The survival of the cornerstone of the
Bill
> of Rights is at stake."
> Angus Mackenzie, Secrets
>
> 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."
> Theodore Roosevelt
> "Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never
to
> be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other
> people."
> Gore Vidal
> "There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier
to
> catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where the police were allowed
to
> search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country
where
> the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone
> conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a
> country where people could be held indefinitely based ... on mere
suspicion
> that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover and
> arrest more terrorists, or would-be terrorists.... But that wouldn't be a
> country in which we would want to live."
> Senator Russ Feingold
>
>
> " The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders
> of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate
> so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
> Gore Vidal
>
> Odd that Bush and Cheney are so delighted to put us at war when, during
> Vietnam, they were both what we used to call draft dodgers."
>
> a World War II veteran
>
> " Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to
> power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans
to
> utmost deprivation and poverty..."
> U.S. Ambassador to Chile
>
> It is a paradox that the nation that did so much to articulate and codify
> human rights in its foundation documents has so consistently resisted the
> effective functioning of an international framework to protect these
> principles and values."
> Amnesty International
> The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the
> major media."
> Former CIA Director William Colby
> "The U.S. ranks last among developed countries in the percentage of its
GNP
> (0.11%) given in aid. On average, governments in the European Union
> contribute three times as much of their GNP (0.33%) in non-military
foreign
> aid."
> Friends Committee on National Legislation
> I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and
> real freedom of discussion as in America. "
> Alexis de Tocqueville
> " Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely
to
> be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of
governments
> or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares
the
> blame."
> Amnesty International
> " It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable and to
> propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment
> spend any amount of money on arms. "
> John Stockwell
Pearls before swine, "Anonymous". Too bad you live in a country ( I assume
the US) that you have to use a name like "Anonymous". Btw, you are NOT
anonymous. 
Orm
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