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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 08:32 PM Original message |
So long as the actor is good, and the victim is bad, there can be no crime |
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teddy51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Excellent post, and so true. So long as it is done by us, were good with it |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Depends on who us is, right? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. well yes, we prosecuted Japanese war criminals. But no Allied criminals. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I've never understood how failing to live up to ideals in the past excuses the failure today |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 09:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. might = right. clear and simple. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 09:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It certainly explains why Qaddafi and Mubarak were friends until they were weak. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 06:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. It's the immorally cynical masquerading as the worldly and sophisticated. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The inconsistency goes both ways |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
7. The only thing that matters is who is alive at the end of the day. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Who is protected by extraordinary rendition? By torture? |
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bhikkhu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-02-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. Or you could consider the 400 or so American citizens killed by police each year |
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