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In reply to the discussion: LGBT activist Robert Pinter-"the fringe left is just as strident as the tea party on the right" [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)argue the OP or ignore the thread.
when one says Kristofferson's "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" says one thing(but actually says the opposite), no one ever prints the entire lyrics.
I will post the entire article in the appropriate place(of which the quote is in, near the bottom, and it retorts the long article's basis in one line, but we can only post a few paragraphs here, and the article is 100s of paragraphs long, and has nothing to do with this thread except for the quote.
Kristofferson of course, meant (but the extreme fringe took the other way as they always distort), Kristofferson meant that actually, if anyone cares about anything or anyone,
one is NOT free without the other people in the world(or family group or twosome).
But the Ron Paul people take it some grand tour phrase, which it isn't.
Kristofferson meant and has reaffirmed his meaning many times
Freedom is sitting the beach over the person they lost in their rebel with a straw quest for some inane cause that is a bogus waste of time as one finds out howling at the moon at 3am on the beach all alone and with nothing.
(ala 3rd party waste of votes IMHO).
but the article itself would distract from this powerful quote found toward the very end.
But, of course, those that don't like the quote, know they can't argue it.
Simple in fact, and transparently transparent