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Title: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 08 06 04:59
I bought Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. And Orwell's 1984.
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Witch on Feb 09 06 09:01

QuoteI bought Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. And Orwell's 1984.
I have a copy of 1984, printed in 1985.

I am easily amused.

     
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Admin on Feb 09 06 09:03
I bought Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. And Orwell's 1984.

We'll all come to Guantanamo and visit you.
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 09:51
I have a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf  in German....   does that put me on any watch list?
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 11:10
You're always on my watchlist, lover.[/DIV]Especially when you use that hawt german dom accent. ROWR!
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 11:14
I actually have the remnants of a scottish accent.....  

do you still love me?
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Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 11:40
Actually I think Hitler's book is banned. I was shocked thou to find Marx's book. Considering what Mccarthyism was about and all.  
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Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 11:42
Hitler's book is not banned.  it is mandatory reading in many poly-sci courses.
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 11:44
There's naught wrong with a Scottish accent![/DIV]I can just close my eyes and pretend that you're... (http://www.motleycrow.com/ImageHost/zardoz6.jpg)
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 11:45
Is it really? Cause I couldn't find it in any store. So I figured it got axed.
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Brent on Feb 09 06 11:47
I wrote lots of anti-bush stuff on various sites. I tried a Sygate firewall for a while and was being tracked by at least 2/3 Washington based 'tracking' companies.They seemed BigBrothery to me. Lol
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 11:57
Is it really? Cause I couldn't find it in any store. So I figured it got axed.[/DIV] It is really tough to find, especially an english version.  Go to a Uni bookstore.  Failing that, you can order copies inthrough chapters
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 11:57
yeah same here
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Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 11:59
oh. Anyway can't really stand right wing facists. I can read the lefty stuff because that most likely fits me with a few tweaks here and there but to me a neo con is more interested in hitler's book than a socialist.
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 12:06
"but to me a neo con is more interested in hitler's book than a socialist."[/DIV] why would you have to be either to be interested in the book.  I am certainly neither and I found it to be quite interesting...   or at least eye opening..
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 12:13
i don't know its just a political spectrum thing i guess.
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 12:19
I agree, kits. There's nothing wrong with trying to understand the thought process of twisted, dangerous individuals. I have a serious problem with the typical American perspective that if we oppose an idea or group, we don't need to understand it/them, we just drop some napalm. It's the hubris that leads to believing that every complex problem has a simple solution.
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Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 12:24
remember repression of any kind does not work. I thought the u.s. would have know that by now but I was wrong.
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Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 12:28
How could anyone possibly form an inteligent opinion, without fully understanding all facets of the issue?
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Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 12:33
thats what I tell my pro-life friends who call the pro-choice people PRO-DEATH. How crazy is that? I'm neither, yes neither. But I always tell them if you want to enter the political debate you have to see it from the other side or else you don't belong in it.
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 12:35
Americans prefer simplicity when it comes to politics.[/DIV]And simplicity (speaking to emotion rather than intellect) is the forte of the Republican party.That's the delemma of course, and why I have little hope for our political system. Any politician who actually attempted to explain reality in an objective, factually consistent manner and make realistic demands of the American people would never make it past the primaries. So instead we end up either with an arrogant, simple-minded prick, or a coward who knows the kind of problems we face, but has no intention of pushing for any real change.
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Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 12:40
Thats why if I ever ran for anything in politics I'd would end up becoming a protest rep. and in the two party system what ever party I would be in would distance themselves from me.  American Politicans are like sheep and when a wolf comes to shake things up in there party they run away like cowards.
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 12:41
Or they call their friends in the media and have them broadcast the wolf howling at a rally 200 times an hour. Independant press my ass...
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Post by: Witch on Feb 09 06 01:10
How could anyone possibly form an inteligent opinion, without fully understanding all facets of the issue?

One cannot form an intelligent opinion without understanding. Without understanding, one can only adopt the opinion one is given by powerful people for whom intelligent opinions are dangerous. Fortunatly for the weak minded, there are more than enough people willing to give you an opinion in exchange for your support at the trough.
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Post by: tenkani on Feb 09 06 01:30
LOL, we're so used to being fed opinion and baseless assertions. These poor American kids, most of them never learn in school how to ask "why"?

I'm a big proponent of teaching philosophy (with an emphasis on the study of logic) beginning in the first grade. Most kids don't actually learn how to reason. They learn how to memorize and parrot what they're taught.
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 09 06 01:53
Quote from: Witch on Feb 09 06 01:10How could anyone possibly form an inteligent opinion, without fully understanding all facets of the issue?

One cannot form an intelligent opinion without understanding. Without understanding, one can only adopt the opinion one is given by powerful people for whom intelligent opinions are dangerous.

Fortunatly for the weak minded, there are more than enough people willing to give you an opinion in exchange for your support at the trough.
Welcome to America. Be careful for what you say. Don't upset people. Or you might end up in a ditch.  
Title: Re: I just put myself on the terror watch list...
Post by: kits on Feb 09 06 01:56
Welcome to America. Be careful for what you say. Don't upset people. Or you might end up in a ditch.[/DIV] Why???(http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/7.gif)