In These Times

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• • 23 Aug 05
  • 10:12 am

  Young people seem to be more passionate about the truth. For example protests are generally full of the younger generations. Younger people seem to believe stronger in human rights. In universities around the world, I often hear the talk of how people are suffering in this place or that place due to this policy or that company. The older generations, especially in the west. Seem to to lose their passionate fight for a better world as the years pass them by. Experience gets the better of their idealism. Whattheheck wrote "Your misconceptions of what precipitated that war indicate you are too …

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• • 23 Aug 05
  • 6:19 pm

  I hear the views of whattheheck all the time. As If Muslim extremists have no reason at all to be accusing usof being 'crusaders'. Unfortunately this uninformed opinion leads to the very extremism that causes people to die, hence the belief in the death penalty aswell. Most americans hear the word terrorist and don't even question why that person was issued with that buzz word. Nobody asks why did they attack us? Nobody tries to find out if their attack on us has anything to do with something we are doing in their countries to their families. They also put their …

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