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A Vindication of America
Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly) ^ | June 19, 2004 | Jonathan Carson

Posted on 06/19/2004 10:23:33 AM PDT by traditio

Islamofascists, big religious wigs, and campus radicals say that America is ruled by plutocrats who use sex to sell to a consumer society. Then Saudi moneybags buy girls from India and Pakistan, and American prelates hide child molesters from the police, while campus radicals, who say that what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms is none of our business, do it in public.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: america; binladen; childmolester; church; immoral; iraq; islamofascist; middleeast; orwell; police; prelate; professor; radical; sex

1 posted on 06/19/2004 10:23:34 AM PDT by traditio
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To: traditio
Very interesting perspective. Never quite thought of it that way before. Thanks for the post.

LBT

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2 posted on 06/19/2004 10:29:38 AM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Even now in heaven there are angels carrying savage weapons.)
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To: MEG33

bttt


3 posted on 06/19/2004 10:45:52 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: traditio
President Bush says that our enemies hate freedom, and they think that he is an idiot. So the President knows the truth, which is better than being intelligent because the purpose of intelligence is to know the truth. Truth is an end, intelligence a means. And intelligence that consistently fails to find the truth is not really intelligence. It is like a computer with a bug or a doctor whose patients all die.
4 posted on 06/19/2004 10:46:57 AM PDT by tophat9000
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To: traditio
BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! WOW!!!

The radicals share with Saddam Hussein a Nazi/communist disdain for bourgeois respectability; the churchmen share with Osama bin Laden a hatred of bourgeois decadence.

What merit is there in not stealing because you fear that your hand will be cut off? In not drinking because you have no alcohol? In not being aroused by a woman you cannot see?

The Islamofascist cannot conceive of morality without coercion. To the Islamofascist, freedom is immorality. Freedom is license to him, not the arena in which we choose good or evil. Morality is imposed, external, not free and internal, which is why terrorists who come to America to destroy debauchery and promiscuity go to topless bars before murdering the just and the unjust alike.

5 posted on 06/19/2004 10:51:01 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: traditio

Very clear vision
"President Bush says that our enemies hate freedom, and they think that he is an idiot. So the President knows the truth, which is better than being intelligent because the purpose of intelligence is to know the truth. Truth is an end, intelligence a means."

I have from 9:11 recognized that Bush sees clearly where most see poorly. God Bless him and stand with him


6 posted on 06/19/2004 11:02:44 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: PatrickHenry; Long Cut

Talking about freedom...a nice rebuttal to our "other" poster on the repression thread.


7 posted on 06/19/2004 12:01:41 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: poink; tpaine; GovernmentShrinker; antiRepublicrat; Robert_Paulson2; Pukin Dog; hchutch; ...

BUMP! After the "Inquisition" threads, a bit of much needed sanity!


8 posted on 06/19/2004 12:31:29 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: MEG33; SJackson; Modernman; MineralMan; Poohbah; cyborg; balrog666; VadeRetro; TheBigB

Bumped, bookmarked, and PINGed!


9 posted on 06/19/2004 12:34:16 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: inflation

You might like this one, too.


10 posted on 06/19/2004 12:40:58 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: Long Cut

Like a glass of iced tea after clearing brush on a hot Texas day...;)


11 posted on 06/19/2004 12:41:25 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: MEG33
Or an ice-cold beer after a hard day's work.

Or a frozen Margarita after a day at the beach, with Jimmy Buffett playing in the background!

Is it just me, or has there been a bit too much fanatacism around here lately?

12 posted on 06/19/2004 12:43:27 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: Bella_Bru

Here's a good, positive one for once! It gets to BOTH kinds of fanatics.


13 posted on 06/19/2004 12:44:33 PM PDT by Long Cut (The Constitution...the NATOPS of America!)
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To: Long Cut

good article!


14 posted on 06/19/2004 12:54:38 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: traditio

I just clicked on the site Home and found another gem or two..Great site!


15 posted on 06/19/2004 1:32:48 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: traditio

Refreshing perspective, thanks for posting.


16 posted on 06/19/2004 1:42:00 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Evil doesn't want to leave you alone. It wants to draw you in and force you into complicity. - Keyes)
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To: traditio

Great post!

BTTT


17 posted on 06/19/2004 2:00:28 PM PDT by Smile-n-Win (When dealing with tyrants, a "peaceful solution" must only be considered as the very last resort.)
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To: traditio

bttt


18 posted on 06/19/2004 11:29:37 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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