Just because it will make the village idiot's head explode
Just because it will make the village idiot's head explode
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
Re: Just because it will make the village idiot's head explo
As disturbing as some of the pictures are, those were the days when you were allowed to speak out against the government and not fear getting arrested without charge. The days when we really were the home of the free.
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Sue U
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Not if you were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, et al., or marching/riding buses for civil rights in Alabama, Mississippi and environs.Big RR wrote:As disturbing as some of the pictures are, those were the days when you were allowed to speak out against the government and not fear getting arrested without charge. The days when we really were the home of the free.
ETA:
Almost from its very beginning, this country has repeatedly failed to live up to its promises of free speech and petitioning the government for redress of grievances.
GAH!
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No doubt many were unfairly treated before, but I do think that the government crackdowns on free speech are far more widespread now. Ellsberg published the Pentagon Papers, and he still remained free; Snowden dared to show how Obama lied about wiretaps, and he had to flee to Russia; American citizens who go to Taliban groups get killed by drones, while Jane Fonda posed for pictures with Viet Cong groups. And so far as I know, during Viet Nam the USSC never endorsed arresting and imprisoning people with out charge, nor did it deny the detainees access to the civilian courts. We were a lot freer then.
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She was dead cute.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Certainly cuter than Snowden. 
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Burning Petard
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And back then she was just about as knowledgeable about international politics and POTUS is now.
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Come on now, that's like saying there is a place lower than the Marianas Trench; she may have been ignorant of a lot, but she's no Trump.
The village idiot's head explodes
I only read it for the articles.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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IMplode implode. When a vacuum container breaks it implodes.
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Bicycle Bill
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75 cents??? Just how the hell old is that issue?RayThom wrote:I only read it for the articles.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?