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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
---George Orwell

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Amnesty: (thanks blackie)
The action of a government by which all persons or certain groups of persons who have committed a criminal offense—usually of a political nature that threatens the sovereignty of the government (such as sedition or treason)—are granted immunity from prosecution.
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"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency." --Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.

"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may." --Thomas Jefferson to B. S. Barton, 1815. ME 19:223 Willie Green 5/17/06
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We Americans face an awesome challenge and responsibility because if liberty dies here, it's probably dead for all places and all times. --Walter Williams ( Thanks Hedgetrimmer)
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"A HOUSE DIVIDED" - Pukin's FReeperversary Rant
	Posted by NewRomeTacitus to wardaddy On News/Activism 05/19/2006 9:21:56 AM PDT · 3,502 of 3,633 Middle Tennessee has indeed become a major destination point for illegal immigrants because of the ongoing construction work available and the near-total lack of employer enforcement. 100,000 may be too conservative a number for a population that shuns accountability as a matter of course. You know of my scrapes with them as a holdout while they drove my former legal immigrant neighbors away with crime, noise, graffiti, pollution, disrespect and overall obnoxiousness. Their ranks are swelling with every new bus-liner arriving at the Adame depot behind Nolensville Road ("Nothing Runs Like a Greyhound Coyote!"). The OBLs [open border lovers] would change their tune in a hurry if they had to survive the conditions I listed. Where's the sympathy for the poor and retired citizens stuck in the ever-growing barrio who have to bar their windows and watch their meager properties fall in value? Perhaps they're written off as part of "the rabble" who's role is to shut up and take it. Woe unto those who dare to bray about bad representation - they'll just be kicked to the curb like a pukin' dog by authorities with hearts as black as onyx. If those citizens banded together and marched through the stadium shouting seditious slogans they'd be incarcerated and convicted with no pardons. Do you smell what the Rokke is cookin'? Seriously, we should follow the advice of the Minutemen and vote for the most conservative candidates available. The current state of our nation is directly attributable to voters choosing "the lesser evil" and receiving evil for their efforts. The phenomenon mentioned earlier of out-going politicos assigned the dirty work is true - apparent in the capitulation we saw last Monday and in the comments by the departing Bill Frist ("a wall is useless, they'll just go around it") right after he sent a mass email supporting one. We all deserve better than that.

Do you hear the winds of tyranny Howlin? (Joe Hadenfuf 5/22/06)
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To: NormsRevenge
I don't want to say the president has abandon the core beliefs of the Republican party but...

I feel as if I am a 5-year old standing by the road, in a desert, with a suitcase and my teddy bead in hand, watching my dad drive way, saying "it for your own good, son".
05/20/2006 12:54:26 PM PDT by truemiester
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