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Manifestor_of_Light

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5. great quote!

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 02:52 AM

Mar 2014

Some of these Germans were SO farsighted. Like Heinrich Heine saying in 1834, 99 years before Hitler rose to power that Germany would start a war that would make the French Revolution look like a picnic. Or in 1821 in a play, "Where first they burn books, eventually they burn people."

I don't know German except what little I know through my decades of studying music, so I have to read this in translation but it's still amazing.

"Fascism will come to America under the guise of patriotism." - Huey P. Long, governor of Louisiana.

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Evolution is "unpatriotic!" [View all] Archae Mar 2014 OP

The Constitution Party are very, very scary. longship Mar 2014 #1

Oh, I have. Archae Mar 2014 #2

Their principles are moldy... TreasonousBastard Mar 2014 #4

Yeah, it's the "far right of the GOP and the teabaggers are too moderate for me" crowd. Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #8

The left overs of the hard core Birchers hootinholler Mar 2014 #11

A whole lot of theocrats. nt longship Mar 2014 #12

Only to the unevolved. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2014 #3

great quote! Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2014 #5

Breaking: God and the Founding Fathers suing Peroutka for fraud and identity theft JHB Mar 2014 #6

I don't know from patriotic, to me the word "evolution" sounds dirty. Kurovski Mar 2014 #7

Something like the apocryphal COLGATE4 Mar 2014 #10

Guess that means stupidity is patriotic newfie11 Mar 2014 #9