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• • 07 Oct 05
  • 12:30 am

  How about a free book, Folks? A little education never hurt the effort of trying to converge on a more objective version of reality. http://gangsofamerica.com/read.html

  Posted to Standard Issues

• • 27 Sep 05
  • 9:22 pm

  I'd like to remind Whattheheck the his belief that Americans military actions around the world somehow automatically equate to fighting for "liberty" and against "totalitarianism" may be no more that a comfortable, conditioned perspective. He forgets the death squads in Latin America and the overthrown democracies replaced by fascist U.S. puppet regimes. Iraq did not attack America, yet we saw fit to visit upon them our "shock and awe", as we hurried to "secure" their oil fields. Suprise! No weapons of mass destruction... But, it's all good. We needed to free them from that monster (who the U.S. put into power …

  Posted to Reckoning with the God Squad

• • 27 Sep 05
  • 11:45 pm

  GhostRabbit says: Rabbit mentions again the fact that the God Squad is no longer just a funny sideshow. True that the God Squad is humorless and certainly not humorous. These sick, dishonest Machiavellian bastards are truly dangerous. True that their god is not my God. But it is not in the nature of my God to shrink in fear from their intimidations. Afterall, he who would save himself, will be lost. We must offer a more honest God to those whose world is so narrow, stupid, contracted, and mean that all they have to justify their comfort zones is their self-rigtheous …

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• • 28 Sep 05
  • 9:44 am

  I don't know if GhostRabbit is a fantasy persona or real. What is evident though is that Rabbit is able to think. He is clearly well-informed and researches for a more objective truth. He is not some ring-the-bell-the-dog-salivates, knee-jerk, programmed-by-corporate-propaganda type. He is outside the matrix, and sees what the real deal is... more or less. He is no longer sitting in the cave, watching the shadows cast unto the wall: he has gotten away and stepped out into the light. He seems to understand what most are afraid to even consider, and what most are in fact dedicated to being …

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• • 28 Sep 05
  • 1:59 pm

  To Jay Cline continued: As for the elite: You are aware, are you not, that less than 1% of our population owns more than 50% of the wealth in our nation. Ponder for a while the implications of that. That, to my mind, is not exactly the kind of society that our founders had in mind. Speaking of conspiracy theories: Let me give you a couple of dots to connect. Dot 1: Are you aware that in the early 1930s that the very popular Marine General Smedley Butler reported to congress that he had been approached to lead a military coup …

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