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- Jan 3, 2002
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> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
> unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
> public." - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
>
> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
> the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D.
> Eisenhower (Republican)
>
> "President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to
> rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton." -David Letterman
>
> "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk." --Franklin D. Roosevelt
>
> "It looks like congress has finished investigating the 9-11 attacks
> and doesn't it figure? They spent three weeks and two million dollars investigating the 3000 WTC murders ... but they spent three YEARS and $200 million chasing after Clinton's zipper!" Jay Leno
>
> "Can you believe this ENRON mess? I love how Bush's good friend 'Kenny Boy' suddenly turned into 'Mr. Lay.' Give me a break!" Johnny Carson
>
> "Of course George Bush didn't know Ken Lay. They wrote 350 letters to each other. I haven't written 350 letters in my life!" James Carville
>
> "This week, on July 6, George W. Bush turned 57. William White was born the same day in 1946. I mention this because, if you're old enough, you'd remember that young men were drafted for Vietnam based on a grim lottery -- if your birthday was picked out of a hat, you went. I got White's name off a black wall in Washington. He went to Vietnam when George W went to the Air Guard in Houston. White never came back. Happy birthday, Mr. President." -- Greg Palast
>
> "We find it sad that war seems so delightful, so often, to those that
> have no knowledge of it. We will proudly and patriotically continue to denounce war despite whatever misguided sense of euphoria supports it." -- Veterans For Peace
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Voltaire
>
> "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
> atrocities." - Voltaire
>
> "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the
> death your right to say it." - Voltaire
>
> "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
>
> "Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the
> cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating
> over Iraq are really about. This is about business." - Tim Robbins
>
> "Long live democracy, free speech and the '69 Mets." - Tim Robbins
>
> "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that
> elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man
> sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition
> of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war,
> Mr. Bush...And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up." - Michael Moore's Oscar Speech
>
> " "The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are
> not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction." - Michael Moore
>
> "If those in charge of our society -- politicians, corporate
> executives, and owners of press and television -- can dominate our
> ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers
> patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn
>
> "The world's 300 richest people are worth more than the world's
> poorest 3,000,000,000. Between 1983 and 1997, 85% of the increase in America's wealth was captured by the richest 1%. Overall US income rocketed - of which 80% of Americans saw 0%. The market's up, but who is the market?" -- Greg Palast
>
> "If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- John Adams
>
> "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of
> the U.S. media." - Noam Chomsky
>
> "Democracies die behind closed doors. A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society
> envisioned by the framers of our Constitution." --TheU.S.sixth circuit court of appeals 08/27/02
>
> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
> citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
> double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
>
> "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
>
> "Read everything, talk to everyone, believe nothing until you can
> prove it with your own research" --William Cooper
>
> "The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a
> military solution." --John F. Kennedy
>
> "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is
> generally employed only by small children and large nations." --David
> Friedman
>
> "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is
> wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk
> this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an
> unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
> country, let me label you as they may." --Mark Twain
>
> "The first casualty when war comes is truth." --Hiram Johnson
>
> "No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels.
> Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty
> of patriots." --Barbara Ehrenreich
>
> "In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it
> is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
> executioners." --Albert Camus
>
> "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can
> no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to
> great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." --John F. Kennedy
>
> "The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and
> usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more
> than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us
> when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." --H. L. Mencken
>
> "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies
> is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism,
> and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager
>
> "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." --James Baldwin
>
> "WE ARE FIGHTING A WAR ON TERRORISM TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS WE MUST GIVE UP, TO HELP FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM, TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS........." --Unknown
>
> Its all about the money - Political power is taken - Protecting the
> rich denying the poor - Yeah, they love to watch the war from the
> white house - And I wonder how can they sleep at night? How can they sleep at night? How did the cat get so fat?" - NOFX
>
>
>
~~~ Dan ~~~
Oh yeah, and let's not forget my personal favorite...
"If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future."
HAPPY NEW YEAR, GANG!
>
> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
> unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
> public." - Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
>
> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
> the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D.
> Eisenhower (Republican)
>
> "President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to
> rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L's in Halliburton." -David Letterman
>
> "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk." --Franklin D. Roosevelt
>
> "It looks like congress has finished investigating the 9-11 attacks
> and doesn't it figure? They spent three weeks and two million dollars investigating the 3000 WTC murders ... but they spent three YEARS and $200 million chasing after Clinton's zipper!" Jay Leno
>
> "Can you believe this ENRON mess? I love how Bush's good friend 'Kenny Boy' suddenly turned into 'Mr. Lay.' Give me a break!" Johnny Carson
>
> "Of course George Bush didn't know Ken Lay. They wrote 350 letters to each other. I haven't written 350 letters in my life!" James Carville
>
> "This week, on July 6, George W. Bush turned 57. William White was born the same day in 1946. I mention this because, if you're old enough, you'd remember that young men were drafted for Vietnam based on a grim lottery -- if your birthday was picked out of a hat, you went. I got White's name off a black wall in Washington. He went to Vietnam when George W went to the Air Guard in Houston. White never came back. Happy birthday, Mr. President." -- Greg Palast
>
> "We find it sad that war seems so delightful, so often, to those that
> have no knowledge of it. We will proudly and patriotically continue to denounce war despite whatever misguided sense of euphoria supports it." -- Veterans For Peace
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
>
> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Voltaire
>
> "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
> atrocities." - Voltaire
>
> "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the
> death your right to say it." - Voltaire
>
> "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
>
> "Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the
> cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating
> over Iraq are really about. This is about business." - Tim Robbins
>
> "Long live democracy, free speech and the '69 Mets." - Tim Robbins
>
> "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that
> elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man
> sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition
> of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war,
> Mr. Bush...And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up." - Michael Moore's Oscar Speech
>
> " "The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are
> not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction." - Michael Moore
>
> "If those in charge of our society -- politicians, corporate
> executives, and owners of press and television -- can dominate our
> ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers
> patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn
>
> "The world's 300 richest people are worth more than the world's
> poorest 3,000,000,000. Between 1983 and 1997, 85% of the increase in America's wealth was captured by the richest 1%. Overall US income rocketed - of which 80% of Americans saw 0%. The market's up, but who is the market?" -- Greg Palast
>
> "If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- John Adams
>
> "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of
> the U.S. media." - Noam Chomsky
>
> "Democracies die behind closed doors. A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society
> envisioned by the framers of our Constitution." --TheU.S.sixth circuit court of appeals 08/27/02
>
> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
> citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
> double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
>
> "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
>
> "Read everything, talk to everyone, believe nothing until you can
> prove it with your own research" --William Cooper
>
> "The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a
> military solution." --John F. Kennedy
>
> "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is
> generally employed only by small children and large nations." --David
> Friedman
>
> "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is
> wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk
> this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an
> unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
> country, let me label you as they may." --Mark Twain
>
> "The first casualty when war comes is truth." --Hiram Johnson
>
> "No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels.
> Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty
> of patriots." --Barbara Ehrenreich
>
> "In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it
> is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the
> executioners." --Albert Camus
>
> "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can
> no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to
> great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." --John F. Kennedy
>
> "The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and
> usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more
> than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us
> when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair." --H. L. Mencken
>
> "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies
> is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism,
> and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager
>
> "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." --James Baldwin
>
> "WE ARE FIGHTING A WAR ON TERRORISM TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS WE MUST GIVE UP, TO HELP FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM, TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS........." --Unknown
>
> Its all about the money - Political power is taken - Protecting the
> rich denying the poor - Yeah, they love to watch the war from the
> white house - And I wonder how can they sleep at night? How can they sleep at night? How did the cat get so fat?" - NOFX
>
>
>
~~~ Dan ~~~
Oh yeah, and let's not forget my personal favorite...
"If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future."
HAPPY NEW YEAR, GANG!
