16-12-2008, 03:03 PM
Semantics again, Dawn.
We do pose a threat -- but to date an ineffectual one that is taken advantage of by the killers of JFK.
In permitting us to rant and rave, they preserve the illusions of free speech and democracy in the U.S. even as their bought-and-paid-for defenders keep us on the margins of academic and intellectual respectability so that, in the event that through some miracle we threaten to put up a meaningful fight, we can be quickly dismissed as "conspiracists" from the lunatic fringe.
But make no mistake: The arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice, and with every word we speak and write we move along that arc.
But time's a'waistin', podners.
We do pose a threat -- but to date an ineffectual one that is taken advantage of by the killers of JFK.
In permitting us to rant and rave, they preserve the illusions of free speech and democracy in the U.S. even as their bought-and-paid-for defenders keep us on the margins of academic and intellectual respectability so that, in the event that through some miracle we threaten to put up a meaningful fight, we can be quickly dismissed as "conspiracists" from the lunatic fringe.
But make no mistake: The arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice, and with every word we speak and write we move along that arc.
But time's a'waistin', podners.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene