BUSH IS EVIL
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BUSH IS EVIL
| Wed, 09-08-2004 - 10:51am |
After reading all these posts, its seems fruitless to even argue with eachother. Bush is just plain evil. That's it. He will be remembered in 100 years (if he doesn't destroy the world before then) as a terrible person, like Pinnochet, Stalin, etc. There is no arguing. He is causing misery and heartache to too many people to ignore this fact.
Bush just wants to start a holy war. And the fundamentalist Muslims want to keep him in power so the war can begin.

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For example what they are doing to free speech
- FLAG DESECRATION: For more than a decade, the Citizen's Flag Alliance and others have expended seemingly endless resources lobbying candidates and members of Congress to pass a constitutional amendment giving the government the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag. Such a constitutional amendment would undermine the very principles for which the American flag stands.
- THE RIGHT TO PROTEST - Can you imagine participants of the Boston Tea Party having to ask the British government's permission to protest them? That's what the Bush Administration has been doing to peaceful protestors around the country, especially recently in New York.
- GOVERNMENT FUNDED RELIGION (what ever happened to a separation between Church and State?) - Earlier this month the Senate made clear that it would not allow federally funded religious discrimination. Despite this, the Bush Administration and several Members of Congress continue to promote religious discrimination with taxpayer funds. Their most recent legislative attempt would roll-back key civil rights protections and will soon be considered on the Senate floor. http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLibertylist.cfm?c=37
AND THE CULMINATION OF IT ALL, THE INFAMOUS, ANTI-PATRIOTIC AND UN-CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT ACT
That is so ridiculous. I lived in a Muslim country for 2 years, and they were peaceful, understanding, patient people who did not hate "freedom" and "democracy". It's funny how many people forget how brutal and violent Christianity was and is. And how oppressive to women! I also can't stand the argument that liberals should leave the country just b/c we criticize our government. Isn't that what we are fighting for in Iraq? The right to question our administration, our President, and our foreign policy? I thought that was the point. But, I guess I'm just a bleeding heart and should go move to France or something.
That's not defending Patriot and Patriot II, but simply noting that it's not as cut and dried a partisan issue as you make it out to be.
~mark~
Question, why don't you?
That's not defending Patriot and Patriot II, but simply noting that it's not as cut and dried a partisan issue as you make it out to be."
I think you are missing the point and playing right into the hands of the partisans. This isn't about "liberal" vs. "conservative." In fact, McNamara (who I mentioned in a previous post) worked for the democrats. This is about conserving our democracy and freedom - something any true American patriot should be concerned with. Up until now, both Democrats and Republicans have been pretty much the same. The point I am making is that Bush has taken it to a new level. He has brought in religious fundamentalism to his platform. I am strongly against the idea of turning the U.S. into a Christian fundamentalist state.
What country did you live in, if you dont mind me asking? I thank you for your description of the people you were surrounded by, it is a vast difference than what many on this board tend to reflect them as being. I am muslim, and I have never personally met anyoone who had enough hatred to kill anyone in this country or another one for that matter. I am more outspoken than most of the muslims I know. I have come to understand that people do the most horrible atrocities in the name of religion, but it is not because of the religion they do these things, it is for power and greed.
Bush may or may not have taken it to a new level, but lets not pretend this is another purely partisan-based issue. Liberals and democrats have just about as much history of violating or attempting to violate the word of the Constitution as conservatives, neo- or otherwise. Ignoring that fact doesn't do your argument or your concerns any justice.
~mark~
I also get angry when people say that Islam is the most violent religion - have they never read the Bible?
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