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Author Topic:   Correlation between Anti-Gun v Anti Death Penalty Views
Omnivorous
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Message 84 of 113 (735609)
08-18-2014 7:18 PM
Reply to: Message 77 by RAZD
08-17-2014 2:46 PM


Re: militarized police and innocent people being shot
RAZD writes:
Would the city be more peaceful if the residents protesting the shooting were carrying assault rifles?
Strangely enough, fantasies about liberty-loving armed Americans resisting jackbooted government thugs don't feature the colorful residents of Ferguson, MO.
Historical ironies: the right wing promotes "2nd Amendment solutions" to an ever-imminently oppressive government, echoing the credo of the Black Panthers (and Mao), that all power flows from the barrel of a gun...echoing the same Black Panthers who studied the North Korean doctrine of juche, or self-reliance, and created their own soup kitchens, neighborhood watches and schools...sorta like the survivalists and home-schoolers today, most of them gun enthusiasts who anticipate repelling government thugs...
Let me say, as a man of some Sicilian heritage, that clearly, as a species, we have a tendency to go to the mattresses.
Also, the Panthers were pretty much all killed.

"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."

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Omnivorous
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Message 95 of 113 (735783)
08-24-2014 5:11 PM
Reply to: Message 91 by Faith
08-24-2014 3:19 PM


Faith writes:
Gandhi's method can only work against a Christian nation.
Hundreds of millions can thank their lucky stars that they were colonized, exploited, enslaved and slaughtered by Christian nations, who would later feel bad about it, and let them go.
It's another clear case of Christian moral superiority.

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Message 98 of 113 (735786)
08-24-2014 5:40 PM
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08-24-2014 5:18 PM


I didn't buy anyone's line, including yours and D'Souza's and other right wing apologists' for slavery and colonization.
The great colonial liberations of the 20th century occurred during a period of rapid secularization.
Even so, a Great Britain exhausted by WWII acceded to India's independence largely because they were in no condition to fight another distant war: Gandhi's nonviolent resistance was not the only force in India.
God and King would never have let them go.

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