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Date Posted: 08:34:12 07/24/02 Wed
Author: Toffly
Subject: McCarthyism, anyone?
In reply to: Silver 's message, "The words 'oh shit' come to mind." on 13:04:50 07/18/02 Thu

Heh. I can say whatever the FUCK I want, seemingly because I don't live in The Land of Democracy and Freedom. I can even ask mr. Bush to go screw himself! How about that, Echelon? Huh? Huh?

Funny how the defense of Freedom can get so all-consuming that everything is sacrifised on the way - including Freedom. An age of reactionarianism has come, it seems. No means is too extreme when it comes to reaching whatever Goal, such as universal human rights, or freedom from oppressing regimes.

Another example of this (steam warning) is what happened in Gaza yesterday - an Israeli F-16 firing a rocket into a condo, killing one of the key members of Hamas, and 15 innocent people including 9 children, all in their sleep. Sharon and other officials said the raid was "very successful". I get nauseous when media call suicide bombing "terror" (rightfully so), but call the identical kind of killing something else, something soothing, like an "operation". And certain leaders who fight the one kind of murdering because the word "terror" is being used, while supporting and financing the other because of guilty conscience for something that happened to the ancestors of the killers, 60 years ago...

I was going to say even more stuff, but it escaped my mind. This happens a lot.

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wasnt there one about a horse with a bomb attatched to it.... -- spoOk, 09:01:49 07/24/02 Wed
- Yikes! Please tell -- Toffly, 14:21:42 07/24/02 Wed
  - it was on the news... -- spoOk, 01:40:35 07/27/02 Sat
With a healthy dose of Red Scare, please. -- rueyeet, 14:13:39 07/24/02 Wed
- Didn't you get enough redness in my previous post? -- Toffly, 14:20:33 07/24/02 Wed
  - Yes...and it itches! quit it! -- rueyeet, 08:57:52 07/25/02 Thu
    - my room is a series of well organized piles...i know whats in each one... -- spoOk, 01:47:46 07/27/02 Sat
Update -- Toffly, 14:26:57 07/24/02 Wed

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