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To: Pistias
"she points out something that's I've seen a lot of around here lately--anger."

And why shouldn't we be angry? We have been railroaded and lied to and for all intents and purposes gagged and enslaved by these liberal thugs in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance." Well, bulls**t. When the majority of Americans have their sensibilities offended and assaulted everyday at every turn and we see media and the politicians swallowing the bitter pills of outrage and ignoring dissenting voices no matter how many or how justified you're d**m right we're gonna be angry. Maybe we'll eventually get angry enough to do something about it as the forefathers intended and take our country back.

Admittedly some of us get a bit out of control at times and say things that do nobody any good. I know that I have a very hard time being civil to some people on this forum, although thankfully they are the exception, but I too have seen some vicious battles here and at such times I feel that we have lost because we can be so easily diverted from our purpose of promoting conservatism and the Constitution.

259 posted on 02/16/2002 1:59:08 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
And why shouldn't we be angry?
Right on, sweetliberty! Also, "ANGER" does NOT equal "HATE" - It is a common tactic of MANY on the left to describe every passionate emotion expressed by conservatives as "hate," in an effort to marginalize our truly heartfelt beliefs.
263 posted on 02/16/2002 2:21:19 PM PST by RonDog
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To: sweetliberty
Maybe we'll eventually get angry enough to do something about it as the forefathers intended and take our country back.

You're right, we have plenty of cause for anger--and it's a mark of good character that your spirit chafes at being wronged so. But the Founders knew that such a condition was the worst one in which one can contemplate anything of middling complication, much less the proper course of action to take back the Republic.

Admittedly some of us get a bit out of control at times and say things that do nobody any good. I know that I have a very hard time being civil to some people on this forum, although thankfully they are the exception

I know what you mean...and most of us are good about it. It's the few bad apples that make it worse for the rest of us, and we need to remember that anger is only a good servant--one of the finest servants a person has; however, it's an extremely poor master.

"It is man's peculiar distinction to love even those who err and go astray. Such a love is born as soon as you realize that they are your brothers; that they are stumbling in ignorance, and not wilfully; that in a short while both of you will be no more; and, above all, that you yourself have taken no hurt, for your master-reason has not been made a jot worse than it was before."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VII.22

270 posted on 02/16/2002 3:07:17 PM PST by Pistias
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