I guess the next time somebody tells me that words can't MAKE people do things

[TalkingDog]

I'll just ask if that lets all the people who listen to Bin Laden's tapes off the hook after they've terrorized people.

[EFerrari]

1. Or if it makes bin Laden innocent. n/t

[TalkingDog]

2. Well, there you go.

I guess nobody could've foreseen any of it.....

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. "We don't want to control your mind; we just want to control your INCLINATIONS." -Shadoevision

Not that there are any in the world who are so inclined, to tip into violence.

[kestrel91316]

4. According to Queen Sarah Crosshairs, Charles Manson and Osama bin Ladin

and even poor Adolph Hitler got a bad rap. They killed no one!!!!

[Ian David]

5. Turn to someone else nearby and say, "My friend doesn't like you." n/t

[Cetacea]

6. Carefully placed words can (and do) destroy lives.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Sarah Palin says words incite violence--her opponents' words, not hers

She said in her speech that HER words couldn't have created a climate of violence, but her opponents' arguments are certain to.

After denying that her own rhetoric was inciteful to violence, she said that her opponents' criticism of her "serves only to incite...violence." :crazy:

L.A. Times writer Doyle McManus pointed this out in his op-ed column today on Palin's speech:

Palin comes out swinging, and misses
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-palin-20110113,0,4794503.column

[demigoddess]

8. oooooooh! Good one!!!

it should be a bill board

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. Or what is the point of advertising?

Have people been wasting millions on advertising for hundreds of years?