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4. It is also how ISIS and many other groups groom people for their movements. Some quotes:

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:27 PM

Dec 2014

How to create a fascist state:

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Doing right by all is an advantage:

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

When greed takes over:

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.

Empires are doomed to failure.

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CIA recruted already fragile people who previously suffered and/or commited abuses... [View all] mylye2222 Dec 2014 OP

That sounds interesting. Do you have a link? CJCRANE Dec 2014 #1

No. I only heatd it on TV. mylye2222 Dec 2014 #2

How true. Remember they recruited Nazi's in the beginning. Or at least that is what I have been jwirr Dec 2014 #3

It is also how ISIS and many other groups groom people for their movements. Some quotes: freshwest Dec 2014 #4

Thank you. I really love the second quote. Too many of us have totally forgotten that. And jwirr Dec 2014 #6

I love the second quote too. (nt) Control-Z Dec 2014 #7

Courtesy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who I've adored. Imperfect, but good hearted. freshwest Dec 2014 #9

The churches have become some of the most dangerous places of all. They are messed up. freshwest Dec 2014 #8

Fortunately I was never fragile. hunter Dec 2014 #5