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In reply to the discussion: Snowden’s e-mail provider is closing, cannot legally say why [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)3. K&R
- As long as these stupid assholes are in-charge, this place is truly fucked.
"What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one?
What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him?
What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children?
What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him?
And he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors?
What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes?
What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs?
Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies."
~Robert Anton Wilson
What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him?
What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children?
What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned him?
And he took another child who obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors?
What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes?
What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs?
Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic... with homicidal tendencies."
~Robert Anton Wilson
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I Physically Live In The US - However, I No Longer Live In America - America Is Dead
cantbeserious
Aug 2013
#1
Yes, the world has come to an end... time to go curl up in a ball and shrivel up
DontTreadOnMe
Aug 2013
#29
Watch what you say and do. Remember, your crime is judeged in the mind of the watchers, not yours.
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#2
In my view, the administration is in violation of it's oath to protect and defend the Constitution
grahamhgreen
Aug 2013
#4
Maybe it was an agents-at-the-door situation, ready to confiscate his servers. nt
wtmusic
Aug 2013
#10
The guy didn't tell the truth to his customers, which is why his customers are furious.
MADem
Aug 2013
#24
You're the only one playing the "comparison" game here. I'm not going along with you.
MADem
Aug 2013
#36
Comparisons are important in establishing intellectual consistancy and not looking like a hypocrite.
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#39
LOL!!! Sorry but yeah I think that someone responsible for the welfare of the nation
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#47
No, he doesn't have to tell me everything, but matters of Constitutional violations against EVERY
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#49
Hey if you need somebody to tell you the difference between right an wrong and to define the state
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#56
You must be able to follow the news with your internet connection right?...
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#62
Actually, I can just like I know that you habitually have to have the last word in
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#64
NO, because the NSA has been engaging in their activities by using secret court orders to force
AppleBottom
Aug 2013
#57
Aye. Those things need to be abolished or at the very least have an expiration date of no more than
cstanleytech
Aug 2013
#15
brave move, sacrificing ten years of work for principle! best of luck on next venture.
Civilization2
Aug 2013
#27