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"We only want to celebrate peacefully,"" primary school teacher Sabahan Harez, 50, said. "Where is the freedom of expression the Americans boast so much about."
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Who in their right mind would want to hold a birthday party for that man? I would of broke that birthday party up myself....For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence) -
Freedom of Expression, Fez.Originally posted by Fez
Who in their right mind would want to hold a birthday party for that man? I would of broke that birthday party up myself....
If I wanted to, I could hold a birthday party for him right now, and I'd have every right to.Comment
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i think that people will use any excuse for a holiday. we still have columbus day!!"Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
"I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."Comment
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You missed a better one:
Nope, can't see any security issues with such a pleasant group of peace loving Iraqis...Young girls in bright red dresses jumped on the spot holding up portraits of him and chanted: "We will sacrifice our souls and blood for Saddam Hussein."
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Some residents said Saddam's iron rule had only taught the people to make a show of loving him, even if they did not feel it.
"The truth is people hate him. I do," Ali Abdullah, 50, a wheat farmer, said. "I care more about this old shoe here with the hole in it more than I do about Saddam."Comment
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Tass, thanks for misquoting the article.
It seems like people were gonna commit suicide missions for Saddam.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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why not let them celebrate?"Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez
"I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran SiddiquiComment
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gunk looks like he provided an adequate answer in the first half of his post.Originally posted by orange
why not let them celebrate?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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In case it wasn't obvious, the "We will sacrifice our souls and blood for Saddam Hussein" blah is inciting violence, when American troops are still getting shot at in Tikrit.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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so people are not free to supprot saddam and bomb americans who are on their soil?Comment
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And if an American says they'd sacrafice their blood for America, should the entire world view it as a secuirty threat?Nope, can't see any security issues with such a pleasant group of peace loving Iraqis...
They haven't done anything, they haven't threatened to do anything. Therefore its freedom of speech.
Ok, then he has ever right to leave the party. However, US troops going in and acting like the place is under martial law.....Is inexcusable.And also:
It's not a misquote, fezTass, thanks for misquoting the article. Just read the article, and feel englightenened
They never said that. If someone in America says "I hate them arabs. We should go bomb them.", then should there be a pre-emptive strike? I mean, that could mean that hes going to slaughter some Arabs.....It seems like people were gonna commit suicide missions for Saddam.
Cause the US doesn't want them toOriginally posted by orange
why not let them celebrate?
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Again, I've heard MANY people talk about bombing arabs and how they all are evil and need to die.....Originally posted by DanS
In case it wasn't obvious, the "We will sacrifice our souls and blood for Saddam Hussein" blah is inciting violence, when American troops are still getting shot at in Tikrit.
Thats inciting violence as well. But as long as they do nothing, we cannot stop them from saying these things.
Your also forgetting that it was ONE person who said that......Theres always one person who will say that in most protests/celebrations, Dan
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They should have let them celebrate. Freedom of speech. Or have you all forgotten that?"Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito MussoliniComment
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I believe it was a misquote. Infact you didn't even quote the article...
Tass... give it a rest...For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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But as long as they do nothing, we cannot stop them from saying these things.
Sure we can, if there are Arabs around.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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