Posts: 1211
Threads: 38
Joined: July 15, 2010
Reputation:
21
Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 22, 2011 at 5:40 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2011 at 5:47 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Posts: 12512
Threads: 202
Joined: January 3, 2010
Reputation:
107
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 22, 2011 at 6:25 am
 Arrgh!! wall of text!! I'll get back to you on this mate 
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
Posts: 1438
Threads: 86
Joined: August 6, 2010
Reputation:
13
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 23, 2011 at 5:02 pm
I completely agree with Jacob. I have been arguing this for the longest time.
Now the people on the right side of the spectrum will say: Gov't shouldn't do shit! The private sector will fix itself ........ (like fucking magic)
Honestly though. It only makes sense in this situation. American Conservatives have issues.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posts: 69246
Threads: 3759
Joined: August 2, 2009
Reputation:
258
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 24, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Quote:The private sector will fix itself
Those private sector cunts damn near finished us and they are still at it. Of course they oppose government. Government's job is to watch them.
Posts: 4535
Threads: 175
Joined: August 10, 2009
Reputation:
43
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 24, 2011 at 11:37 pm
.
Posts: 1211
Threads: 38
Joined: July 15, 2010
Reputation:
21
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 28, 2011 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2011 at 3:58 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Posts: 1438
Threads: 86
Joined: August 6, 2010
Reputation:
13
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 28, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Dear Darkest of Angels and Void,
If your posts weren't so damn long I would find the time to argue with you.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posts: 69246
Threads: 3759
Joined: August 2, 2009
Reputation:
258
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 28, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Yeah....multiple quotes can quickly kill a thread.
Posts: 1211
Threads: 38
Joined: July 15, 2010
Reputation:
21
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 28, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Yeah, sorry about that. I have a bad tendancy to respond to everything thoroughly, but needlessly.
I'll try to be more poignant in the future.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Posts: 4535
Threads: 175
Joined: August 10, 2009
Reputation:
43
RE: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
February 28, 2011 at 6:07 pm
.
|
