Re: Hominems
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Second, you need to realize that attacking the flag, the pledge of allegience and other symbols ARE personal attacks against those of us who served to save your chicken sh!t ass.
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Personal attacks should not be tolerated but you are stetching the definition of them here - I note as well that you frequently rewrite profanities to get around the inbuilt filter which as far as I am aware is not permitted on these forums either. Please abide by the rules.
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How old are you, little man?
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is this "buy-one-get-one-free day" for personal insults?
Does your vocabulary not extend far enough so you can debate people on public forums and keep within the posted rules?
Size doesn't matter - and age doesn't neccesarily qualify your opinion in any way.
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You live in a sheltered world of "ideas". We live in the real world.
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I live in the real world - I am beginning to think that some of your mental faculties might have migrated into fantasy land.
In the "real world" I live in, all around me I see fear being used by politicians to secure their grip on power - you guys have what appears to be a bumbling buffoon for a President elected soley because he's a "Good War President" at a time when there was no need to even have a war! - then you allow this guy and his minions to throw $billions into the defense department while your national deficit is mushrooming. The Politics of fear is growing on the back of "Islamic Terror" when it's not nearly the spectre of Doom it's made out to be. The more fear the politicians spin the more power they get - and people anyone who speaks out against what is happening in "the real world" gets shouted out for not being a Patriot! - as I see it the wool is being pulled over the eyes of the American people bigtime and sooner or later somethings going to give.
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In the past I was strongly opposed to a draft. After reading this board and some blogs, I think mandatory service of some kind is necessary to right this sinking ship.
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So that everyone is forced to undergo state sponsored brainwashing?
Personally I'd rather be publically executed by my Goverment than drafted into the military - I couldn't ever kill another person directly or indirectly (by manufacturing ammunition or something like that) - nothing good EVER comes from war.
Military peronnel are trained to obey NOT to think for themselves - a moments hesitation on the battlefield could be the difference between success or failure - consequently the troops are trained NOT to think - ergo they are brainwashed - their behavior becomes a conditioned response to a situation.
Perhaps "brainwashed" is too strong a term "mentally conditioned" might be more appopriate.
I think forcing young children to recite the PoA in American schools is despicable and ought to be stopped - teach the PoA by all means - explain to the children what it means - why it's there - and that plenty of past Americans have felt strongly enough about it to go and fight and die for their country, but don't force them to recite it everyday - Patriotism towards your country is like respect it ought to be earned and not stolen.
Of course you won't have read any of this because you still have your fingers stuck in your ears, as you've bought into the Government sponsored propoganda about "Conspiracy Theorists"
*sigh*
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