25-08-2012, 03:37 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Mark Prior Wrote:Jan,
Because Mr. Drago asked, "And momentary unity is good for what, exactly?"
And I felt that, since I'm really a nobody on this forum, that the originators of the quotes in question could better explain what unity is good for. As for the specific quote which I chose...many historical figures have said something about unity - I could have chosen any number of them. I thought these to be appropriate.
Mark - the Sponsors of the public slaughter of JFK are smirking at the choice of the words of Henry Ford and Winston Churchill to articulate the nature of "unity".
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Charles Drago
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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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