tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599325421795114181.post3265367759685210159..comments2023-06-09T07:59:30.187-07:00Comments on MachinePolitick: The Ayn Rand quotes, continued...machinepolitickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02869834497906422383noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599325421795114181.post-13602262403537673482009-02-19T00:20:00.000-08:002009-02-19T00:20:00.000-08:00The liberals and humanitarians are now faced with ...<I>The liberals and humanitarians are now faced with a choice: either admit that their are differences among men more profound and irrefutable than those of money or aristocratic birth, and therefore fight for the rights and freedom of the best among men, rights and freedom which the average men do not want, do not understand and cannot use or protect, and stop the damnable preoccupation with the "poor" as such, the poor who have no distinction beyond their poverty; or - deny these ideals... bring mankind down to the level of the masses...</I><BR/><BR/>Exactly. That's the real choice we face. The problem as I see it is that I begin to see there are conservatives or even right-leaning people that are not interested in making that choice, so others are going to do it for them... <BR/><BR/>RegardsNorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242760638368556489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599325421795114181.post-50907603756751716702009-02-18T03:44:00.000-08:002009-02-18T03:44:00.000-08:00Then it sounds like it is concrete for you -- cert...Then it sounds like it is concrete for you -- certainly more so than for most Americans.<BR/><BR/>Too many Americans have been dumbed down, so they don't understand the ramifications of their choices; beyond "dumbed down", they are unwise, and that's just the way the corporate syndicates and their political puppets want us. Off we are led, like sheep to the slaughter, demanding what we have been programmed to ask for.The Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11821094498363724675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599325421795114181.post-73952829731269834522009-02-17T18:42:00.000-08:002009-02-17T18:42:00.000-08:00This is a subject that I have to confess is still ...This is a subject that I have to confess is still not concrete for me. I have no sympathy for terrorists who murder civilians. However, when the government is defining the term terrorist, we are set up for abuses of power. We saw it with the Patriot act, and I fear we will see it with Obama. The wolf has merely exchanged his red sheep suit for blue. <BR/>It is our job as citizens to stand up and demand that our government respect our rights and limit its own scope. It is a mighty challenge these days.machinepolitickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869834497906422383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2599325421795114181.post-61951934274087300272009-02-17T17:22:00.000-08:002009-02-17T17:22:00.000-08:00I think this is my favorite:"...the means have bec...I think this is my favorite:<BR/><BR/>"...the means have become the end..."<BR/><BR/>We have violated international law, using as a form of "enhanced interrogation" a technique that we ourselves decried as a war crime in the wake of World War II.<BR/><BR/>In dealing with Jose Padilla, we took a U.S. citizen into custody on U.S. soil, and denied him his Constitutional rights.<BR/><BR/>If they can do these things to accused terrorists, they can do these things to you -- all they have to do is accuse you of being a terrorist, and say you are an illegal enemy combatant.<BR/><BR/>America has always been defined by what we stand for -- "truth, justice and the American way". If America no longer stands for "truth, justice and the American way", then we have ceased to be a special nation on God's earth; to which nation should the world look for these things?<BR/><BR/>In destroying what is right with America, these people in Washington are destroying America, and they are far more devastating than Osama bin Laden could ever hope to be in his wildest dreams about eternity in the arms of virgins.<BR/><BR/>It is precisely our means that define us -- they are our end, and they are how we will be judged.The Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11821094498363724675noreply@blogger.com