Originally posted by jebrydzagini think her point is, bascially, that people are putting the country before it's people and she feels this is wrong.
The authoress of this 'touching' little screed was 12 years old in 2002 when she wrote it. She is a US resident (Maine) and has attained some notoriety as a peace (at any price) activist. The paragraph is full of errors of fact and is totally illogical, but that makes it nearly perfect for submission to this forum. I wonder if Charlotte herself has ...[text shortened]... volutionary War unjust. After all, some children died so it must have been wrong.
Sigh....
i remember seeing her on the news (okay, so it was "newsround", but...er...yeah...) and she was working with homelsss people somewhere, not just writing stuff. Sure she's a child who doesn't understand a lot of things, but sometimes it's better to look at the world this way.
"why are these people homeless?"
"because they did drugs, and drugs are bad!"
"shouldn't we be helping them not to do drugs?"
"i don't give them money. that way, they can't buy drugs!"
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Ah the homeless...
Yesterday I was setting in a parking lot waiting for a tow truck (freeze plug rusted thru and all the coolant drained out of my truck), smoking my last cigarette, when up ambles a homeless man. "can you spare a smoke?" he asked, I told him it was my last. "Well, could you give me some spare change?" I told him, and this is the truth, I don't have a dime on me, (I had call home collect and have my wife call the tow).
"Well..have a nice life" he says and headed off in the direction of the Quik Corner gas station. So I'm still waiting...And here he goes ambling by going the other way, he had a cigarette in his mouth and was carrying a plastic bag with two beers in it (I could see the name of the cold beer thru the bag).
I'm starting to wonder if all my stuff would fit into a shopping cart.
Originally posted by jimslyp69In between beers (certainly not American) check out the difference between a pure democracy (ancient Athens, for example) and a republic (America and many others). Our congressmen are 'privileged' but they are first elected. Oh, and they don't always have the final say - the veto and court decisions sometimes negate them. Sorry to intrude with facts - pesky buggers!
What's democracy when only a few hundred priveleged citizens have the final say over what laws are passed, and what the other several million do?
Cheers!
*Sits back and sips a Bud*
The flag stands for freedom. You are free to come see for yourself, and free to leave if you don't like what you see. Is America perfect? … far from it. Are there injustices? …all to many. Unfortunately citizenship here gives no guarantees of perfection or justice.
There may be better places to live, I know there are worse…Now go help a homeless person where you live. Make your country better.
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowAnd all this time I thought that burning the homeless was aganist the law...I'm on the next flight to the US with a packet of safety matches and a bottle of lighter fluid. Woo-hoo!
Genius is technically correct, but I think Celtic's source has a very good point: No one will arrest you for burning the homeless.
Originally posted by jebrydzaginbetween a pure democracy (ancient Athens, for example)
In between beers (certainly not American) check out the difference between a pure democracy (ancient Athens, for example) and a republic (America and many others). Our congressmen are 'privileged' but they are first elected. Oh, and they don't always have the final say - the veto and court decisions sometimes negate them. Sorry to intrude with facts - pesky buggers!
Cheers!
*Sits back and sips a Bud*
More than a third of the population of ancient Athens were slaves. How is that for pure democracy?
Originally posted by HalitoseI was comparing 'democracy' with a republican form of government. In Athens and other city states of ancient Greece, political matters were often discussed and decided by male citizens who were of age meeting in a public forum. The fact that slaves, outsiders, women, and young men did not participate is not germane. 'Pure' is this context is not a moral judgement but rather a descriptive one. Town hall meetings which were and are held in smaller New England towns are another example of pure democracy.
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Originally posted by jebrydzaginI think it was closer to plutocracy than democracy...
I was comparing 'democracy' with a republican form of government. In Athens and other city states of ancient Greece, political matters were often discussed and decided by male citizens who were of age meeting in a public forum. The fact that slaves, outsiders, women, and young men did not participate is not germane. 'Pure' is this context is not a ...[text shortened]... ings which were and are held in smaller New England towns are another example of pure democracy.
Originally posted by HalitoseI think in the US it is more like three quarters ~ but TV has become the primary tool for subduing them.
More than a third of the population of ancient Athens were slaves. How is that for pure democracy?
The "good life" is an expensive illusion. What's the cost of Iraq in $$$ and sense?