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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:04 AM
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Are We Free?
If there are two standards of Justice,
that serving those with money
and that preying upon those without,
how can there be even a single, true Law?



Freedom would be impossible,
as one group is subjugated to the other.
Perhaps only more than Knowledge,
Money is Power.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:08 AM
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1. deSade explores this theme in many of his stories.
You may enjoy some of them.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:14 AM
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5. Read about them? We're living them.
Reagan and Bushes lower taxes on the Swells.
Red Ink benefits deepest pockets from Dubai to Beijing.
Wendy Gramm deregulates natural resources.
Phil Gramm helps move loot to Switzerland.

I can't wait for the next Ice Age.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:09 AM
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2. Is that Neal Bush? Criminal.
I seriously think that those people look upon the rest of us as chattel.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:28 AM
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6. Sure is Silverado Bush.
His buddy there is Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.



Almost as nice a friend to have as Rev. Moon.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:12 AM
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3. Can fish ride bikes? n/t
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:32 AM
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7. Fizzbin.


On Tuesday.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 01:10 AM
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11. So when do we get out "Piece of the action"?
Gene Roddenberry was the genius of a generation, followed by J. Michael Straczynski, IMO.


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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:12 AM
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4. Justice ...
Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
-- Anon.
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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:32 AM
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8. I like that. n/t
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 01:25 AM
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12. Amen. And thank you for reminding me.
Truly, only the Educated are Free.

From another teacher:

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." -- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:35 AM
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9. Not as long as
you have something someone else wants to take that you are not willing to give up.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 09:45 AM
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15. Short answer would be - NO
.
.
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(sigh)

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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 12:41 AM
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10. Don't know about you sweetheart, but I ain't giving it away for free.
Oh,sorry, I misunderstood the OP. my bad
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Ani Yun Wiya Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 01:47 AM
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13. Are we free ?
In the land of the fee and the home of the slave, some pigs ARE more equal than ALL the rest.
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B o d i Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-05-09 04:49 AM
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14. Many say the neo-cons are just feudalists, but I disagree, I think manoralists is more fitting.
Your thoughts?

(a thousand points of light, the rest in darkness)




I've enjoyed reading your posts for quite some time, so please, try not to lose it. You seem pretty tense.
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