To: ejroth
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
4 posted on
02/02/2007 7:55:09 AM PST by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Global warming and terrorists being the two main hobgoblins.
7 posted on
02/02/2007 7:56:51 AM PST by
DungeonMaster
(Acts 17:11 also known as sola scriptura.)
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