Without protest, Americans are giving up freedom: Totalitarianism nears

The Roanoke Times (roanoke.com) ^ | Thursday, January 02, 2003 | Glen T. Martin

[ohioman]

"It's nothing short of amazing how some supposedly conservative Freepers could defend this uneducated, irrational, leftist liar."

The most "SPOT ON" words I have read all day.

[joesnuffy]

GLEN T. MARTIN is professor of philosophy and religious studies at Radford University.

I think I saw this colleges info-mercial the other night on late tv This guy has a terminal degree in colonosophy....he is well studied and spends much time on his subject

[Mr. Mojo]

I thought college professors wanted a bigger government.

College professors want gov't to stay out of the business of apprehending Islamic terrorists, and big gov't for everything else.

[Mr. Mojo]

Where in the hell is the barf alert?

It appears "weirdad" isn't barfing like the rest of us.

[biblewonk]

As long as they [Americans] are free to shop in department stores and have traffic in the streets (with automobiles burning oil stolen from dying Iraqi children),

LOL....what a loon. LOL. I can't believe someone wrote this. How much good does oil do to a "dying Iraqi child". Maybe it's the poison Sadam just dropped on them that is causing the problems.

[Diamond]

...In Darwinian terms, the division you make between higher and lower is very interesting in itself

Anger, of course, is a multifaceted beast, originally developed by evolution to provide protection from threat. Today it takes all sorts of forms, one of the most common of which among intellectuals is righteous indignation. Have you succeeded, dear, gentle Professor, in freeing yourself from righteous anger and indignation?

Brilliant, beckett! Don't hold your breath, though, waiting for a coherent response from him.

I also wonder what the Professor means when he says that we have a duty "to do what’s right", and that "a better world is possible". To whom, (or is it to what?) do we owe this 'duty', and what what could possibly be 'right' or 'wrong' with a universe that simply is as it has evolved? A gigantic, impersonal cosmic accident imposes some moral obligation upon us? Remarkable!

Cordially,

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Victim states?

I see only one case where the US appeared to intentionally make a victim out of a non belligerent state. Serbia.

One reason out of a thousand why the Klinton administration should all be rope testers.

[TomServo]

In self-defense the previous poster changed the title completely. It's always a problem when people do that!

Yeah - it's a pain, alright. I don't know why folks won't use full/original title.

[beckett]

Brilliant, beckett! Don't hold your breath, though, waiting for a coherent response from him.

Thank you diamond. Coming from you that is high praise indeed.

I have no worries that he will reply. He's buried under an avalanche of outraged emails right about now, I would surmise.

[MrLeRoy]

does anyone know how I could find ALL the posts I made at FR?

Do you mean including the ones so old that FR no longer displays them? I'm sure they're scrubbed from FR's servers, and I don't know of anyone else archiving FR posts, so I think you're out of luck.

[Sparta]

At least Conservative and Libertarian opponents of the police state have consistancy.