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JHB

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3. They don't need to bring the ship back if they can torpedo it and keep you from building a new one

Reply to sendero (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 07:02 AM

Mar 2012

Never be too sure it can't go back: history is filled with periods of repression after more relaxed attitudes were common.

There ARE people who buy their bullshit. Some wholesale, and some who think they're being being selective and just agreeing with part of it (e.g., being "pro-life" because "using abortion for birth control is wrong" but ignoring, dismissing, or not even aware of the more aggressive agenda pushed by the movement's leaders) but it's enough to get them fighting in the wrong direction.

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Me too.. sendero Mar 2012 #2

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