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Title: We hold these truths to be self-evident Post by Views on Aug 12th, 2002 at 7:00am
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: • Freedom is a good idea. • Freedom is not forcing other people to pay or obey your god, not having Congress decide whether and how consenting adults may f**k, not imprisoning people who eat, smoke, or drink things you wouldn't, etc. Freedom is letting people decide such things for themselves. • Most people are adamantly opposed to freedom. Not their own, of course — just everyone else's. • All human beings — even humans who don't live in America, whose skin isn't white, who don't speak English, who worship a different god than you do (or worship no god at all) — deserve human rights. "Liberty and justice for all," even for people you don't like, who believe things you don't believe, and do things you wouldn't do. • Killing people who haven't done anything wrong is a bad idea. • Trusting government to decide who lives and dies is an especially bad idea. • Trusting governments at all is something best done in small doses. • Trusting corporations to do the right thing is another bad idea. • Mass media, owned by massive corporations, is not a ferocious "watchdog" protecting the public's best interests. • 'The system' doesn't work, except for those working the system. • Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The United States government has very nearly absolute power. • The chasm grows wider every day, between the lofty ideals America publicly professes and the actual behavior of its government and corporations. • Now is the time to speak up. Tomorrow may be too late. Support this Website: http://www.unknownnews.net/ |
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