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To: RobbyS
A Chinese businessman can have as much freedom of action as any of the moguls in Silicon Valley, provided that those in political power allow them to have this.

This is a silly comment, even by your standards. It's like the nun I had for religion junior year of high school who told me with a straight face that "William Tyndale wasn't murdered because he translated the Bible into English. He was murdered because he translated the Bible into English without authorization."

Just so.

The idea that a businessman has freedom of action provided "he's allowed to have it" would be a hilarious oxymoron if it didn't reveal such unreasoning cluelessness.

Freedom you are "allowed to have" isn't freedom. It's slavery.

The Constitution doesn't grant us freedom, it recognizes it. And murdering a man for exercising his God-given freedom of conscience isn't religious "authority." It's just murder.

52 posted on 12/04/2013 8:41:19 PM PST by FredZarguna (The sequel, thoroughly pointless, derivative, and boring was like all James Cameron "films.")
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To: FredZarguna

Do you really think that capitalists cannot subvert a republican form of government, or that they cannot thrive under a despot?


53 posted on 12/04/2013 9:51:37 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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