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Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans and ban certain undesirables from using our airlines. They demand the right to criticize and blaspheeme the name of our supreme commander and cheef George W Bush while forcing multiculturalism down our throats and praising Bill Clinton. We all know however that it's totally Clintons fult for everything bad in america. Now we are at war and we must make a decision. support the safty of America and defeat terrorists, or support civil liberties and give victory to the enemy. Its all because of Bill Clinton and civil liberties that we are in this war so it is only fair that we give it up. no one said life was supposed to be fair you liberal crybabys. Dont give me that rubbish about equality and diversity. WE ARE AT WAR! If your not for Bush and against civil liberties your a terrorist! Your probably even a Communist and should be detained. Therefore fellow Americans we must throw all of our trust and resources behind George W Bush and behind this war with no ifs ands or buts. Be sure to report any and all detractors and freedom supporters to your local military and never question. Bush knows what hes doing and we will win this war once and for all. Thank you and May God bless America.

4,441 posted on 02/18/2006 5:41:44 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

"I know, but he seemed to gradually renounce certian aspects of socialism as time passed, had he lived a couple more decades, he would surely have been a full blown conservative!!"

I agree.

However, I disagree that 1984 was about communism. It was a warning. Awarning about the future of man and of Western Culture.

4,444 posted on 02/18/2006 5:43:55 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

4,445 posted on 02/18/2006 5:44:50 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

4,446 posted on 02/18/2006 5:45:39 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

I know, but he seemed to gradually renounce certian aspects of socialism as time passed, had he lived a couple more decades, he would surely have been a full blown conservative!!

No more than Christopher Hitchens renounced his Marxism after the Soviet Union collapsed. The Right has a strange love affair with both men. If they understood what either of the two stand (or stood) for, they'd start looking for love in other places.

Well, to italicise stuff you still need to use html.
Otherwise you just type and hit 'return' to make a new line.

4,450 posted on 02/18/2006 5:48:48 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

Well, to italicise stuff you still need to use html. Otherwise you just type and hit 'return' to make a new line.

Ah, I see.

4,451 posted on 02/18/2006 5:50:34 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

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4,453 posted on 02/18/2006 5:52:00 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

However, I disagree that 1984 was about communism. It was a warning. Awarning about the future of man and of Western Culture.

Communism was just the agent of the time. Orwell could accurately portray what he had not seen; that is, what the internal structure of the Soviet Union was like. Other intellectuals, like George Bernard Shaw, had made trips to the U.S.S.R., raving about how good things were upon return.

Oceania could be any totalitarian regime. Whoever controls the past controls the future. Sounds like liberal academia, doesn't it?

ET downloading a 100Mb update from 5000 light-years away on a 45kbps modem.

4,456 posted on 02/18/2006 5:53:06 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

4,457 posted on 02/18/2006 5:54:26 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

Yes.
I remember seeing threads where there were twenty posts or so in a row with nothing but 'Bold off', 'bold off', 'Bold OFF!', 'Why won't the %#!@ bold turn OFF?!'
And then there were tags to make things blink, and do marquee scrolling.

Communism was just the agent of the time. Orwell could accurately portray what he had not seen; that is, what the internal structure of the Soviet Union was like. Other intellectuals, like George Bernard Shaw, had made trips to the U.S.S.R., raving about how good things were upon return.

Methinks George Bernard Shaw didn't realise he got a guided tour!!

4,460 posted on 02/18/2006 5:56:49 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

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