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Saturday, September 16, 2006
THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM.
External link: http://docmaloc.gnn.tv/blogs/1973/They_hate_us_for_our_freedom
A friend of mine is really into the so-called "9/11 truth movement," which posits that there is a big government conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks, and that it wasn't really done by Muslim terrorists. Naturally, I was skeptical. He asked me what the terrorists motivation was for the attacks. I began to answer confidently: "They hate us for our freedom." But even before I finished answering, I realized that it was a totally ludicrous, absurd thing to say, and that it certainly wasn't true, and that--at best--it was wild, improbable speculation.
And then, the more I thought about it, I started to think about the Patriot Act, and the warrantless wiretapping, and the secret CIA prisons, and the prisoners we've been holding for half a decade now without charges, the insistence upon not outlawing torture against unconvicted and uncharged suspects, the re-classification of decades-old unclassified documents, and the new proposed rules allowing conviction of suspects without having the opportunity to confront the evidence against them.
And it suddenly hit me.
It's Bush and Cheney who hate our freedom.
link to this item: http://www.creamy.com/blog/2006/09/they-hate-our-freedom.html
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DANGER!!! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!
"It's Bush and Cheney who hate our freedom."
It's very early. Yr. humble in sleepy-goofy mode, unsure where you were going. :-) So here's the thing: Your revelation evoked an authentic chill, a danged shuddering frisson of horror. Spookier than a zombie's valentine!
The bush is not (imho) widely experienced even now. He believes he's better than most of us (recall his simple-minded assertion that he was a church-goin'Christian and that yes, church-goin' Christian folk really ARE superior!)
I'd not seen your blog before and wandered in to hear your thoughts on some UCB effort. Your manner is pleasing, your thoughts (the ones you share *here* at any rate) coherent and your wit, wit'out malice.
Toss out a few more paragraphs quite soon, wouldja?
so long, i'll be back for more -
julz
julz13@swbell.net
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"It's Bush and Cheney who hate our freedom."
It's very early. Yr. humble in sleepy-goofy mode, unsure where you were going. :-) So here's the thing: Your revelation evoked an authentic chill, a danged shuddering frisson of horror. Spookier than a zombie's valentine!
The bush is not (imho) widely experienced even now. He believes he's better than most of us (recall his simple-minded assertion that he was a church-goin'Christian and that yes, church-goin' Christian folk really ARE superior!)
I'd not seen your blog before and wandered in to hear your thoughts on some UCB effort. Your manner is pleasing, your thoughts (the ones you share *here* at any rate) coherent and your wit, wit'out malice.
Toss out a few more paragraphs quite soon, wouldja?
so long, i'll be back for more -
julz
julz13@swbell.net
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