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To: marktwain

Who cares how the rest of the world thinks?


2 posted on 07/29/2008 4:25:12 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot
Who cares how the rest of the world thinks?

That's not even the question.

The questions are:

1) If you talk about "world opinion", what's a legitimate way to measure it?

2) If you talk about the "world community", what's the evidence that such a thing exists?

3) If you say you are a "citizen of the world", why do you think there is (or should be) a political community called "the world", and how do you think such a political community should be governed?

We have gotten very sloppy in our thinking about the above questions, and sloppy thinking leads to sloppy behavior.

The political community known as the United States of America is different from the rest of the world, because it was created using very radical ideas about sovereignty and the sources of political authority. Those ideas are no less radical today than they were in 1776, and the rest of the world does not affirm or agree with them, and never will.

There is no such thing as "the world" in the sense you are using the term. The polyglot mass of oppressed and oppressing Hottentots, Turks, eurotrash and Chinamen that occupy the rest of the planet outside of our blessed Republic do not have a uniform opinion, there is no way to measure whatever opinions they do hold, and if there were, no American should give a moment's thought to it.

"O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa hath long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind".

World opinion my ass.

3 posted on 07/29/2008 4:40:21 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When He rolls up His sleeves, He ain't just puttin' on the Ritz)
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To: P8riot

Hear! Hear!

From the Pilgrims to the Founders, this nation was built on the blood of freedom loving people, tested in the fires of warfare, and set upon a foundation of morality that was never beholden to what had gone before.

To see the US (via the LibTards) slinking toward socialism by way the Multi-Culti PC crowd and the sold-out Lame Stream Media is a sickening sight, indeed.

It’s time to reclaim the country. Our children and grandchildren deserve our best efforts to restore the foundations of the Nation: individual freedom, responsibility for one’s actions, economic freedom, and limited government intrusion into our daily lives.


6 posted on 07/29/2008 5:54:04 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: P8riot
the GKN moderate asserted that it was more evil to own a gun than to have an abortion.

WHAT? Owning an inanimate object is more evil than murdering an innocent human being? Europe IS lost. All the Muslims have to do is tell them that they are taking over.

13 posted on 07/29/2008 7:50:06 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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