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In reply to the discussion: Ohio state House speaker jokes that Obama should be sent to jail [View all]saras
(6,670 posts)14. Exactly. DU wastes so much time pretending that these people THINK, and MEAN things
You make the right noises and people react. They follow you, or they attack. You spend billions of dollars a year on researching how to do this better. You suppress any related research into how people might resist it (anyone else old enough to remember when we had public-interest psychology research?).
And people here worry over the MEANING of what they say, as though it were great literature.
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Ohio state House speaker jokes that Obama should be sent to jail [View all]
highplainsdem
Feb 2012
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By that reasoning, every single President who presided over any military conflict is a 'war criminal
The Doctor.
Feb 2012
#39
Are you saying it's lawful to kill & torture someone who is an unlawful combatant? Aren't there
24601
Feb 2012
#52
POWs are only protected if they are fighting for a recognized state. An unlawful combatant is one...
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#61
I still believe that I'm accurate about some protections being afforded to underprivileged
24601
Feb 2012
#62
That's fair enough, but I was speaking generally. In the case of the US we see how difficult...
joshcryer
Feb 2012
#63
What an ass. He can join our KS GOP House speaker in the butthead group.
proud2BlibKansan
Feb 2012
#6
Batchelder looks like a 60-something Ernie Douglas from the TV show My Three Sons
bulloney
Feb 2012
#35
And has done so little except kiss Old Money ass in Medina Lo! these many years
Ikonoklast
Feb 2012
#47
Exactly. DU wastes so much time pretending that these people THINK, and MEAN things
saras
Feb 2012
#14
His wife is a federal appeals court judge on the 6th circuit, and was rumored to be a Supreme Court
BzaDem
Feb 2012
#24
I saw them both in action back in the 70's when I was a page in the State House..,
WCGreen
Feb 2012
#37