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To: Jacquerie; oxcart; fanfan
Great quote. If I am not mistaken, he also said something very close to: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon our enemies".

That was by George Orwell, and he has an even a better quote than that:

"The pacifist is objectively pro-fascist."

23 posted on 04/02/2006 8:29:39 AM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~¦ IRA supporters on FR are trolls, end of story!)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

"The pacifist is objectively pro-fascist."

To continue your quote:

"This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’."

People who aid and tacitly support the enemy's violence are not pacifists no matter what they call themselves.


29 posted on 04/02/2006 9:05:26 AM PDT by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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