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| Authored by: BJ on Wednesday, January 23 2013 @ 07:43 PM EST |
Having viewed all, I repeat ALL, videos of Noam Chomsky (a true gentleman, btw,
in my opinion) -- all his videos that are available through YouTube, I seem to
recall from what he said once, that MIT was a hub of anti-Vietnam-War
activities.
Noam Chomsky hilighted the fact that that was such a seeming discrepancy, in
light of the fact that the major funder of research at MIT was ... the Defense
Department.
The other thing that I took away from that snippet was that he mentioned this to
illustrate the fact that the US is still the country where freedom of speech is
considered sacrosanct.
bjd
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| Authored by: FreeChief on Wednesday, January 23 2013 @ 10:39 PM EST |
although there were #occupy movements in some of the universities
in California, there were none in the state which gave us our second president
and founding father John Adams.
If you mean to say that there was
no "occupy movement" in Boston, that is false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Occupy_Boston
— Programmer in Chief
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- Occupy Harvard - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 12:06 PM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 03:41 AM EST |
| One that leaves such things to the local sheriff or police.
You mean
the ones that charge those who film law officers physically abusing parking
offenders with offences under wire-tapping laws ? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- MITchief - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 04:30 AM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 04:35 AM EST |
I am sure there are numerous examples, but one need look no further than the
Civil Rights Movement to find examples where the the Jack Booted Thugs *were*
the local sheriff and police that you seem to think so highly of. Power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This happens at both the
Federal and local levels. I would humbly submit that your argument against an
expansive Federal Govt. is orthogonal to decrying Jack Booted Thugs. And w/o
*any* govt. we are at the mercy of those private interests who can assert that
might makes right. *Supposedly* in the U.S. the govt. is "we the
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| Authored by: cjk fossman on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 03:49 PM EST |
Mid last century, some people wanted their children to have
a chance at a decent education, the right to vote and the
right to sit at the front of the bus. That does not mean
they wanted to kill those who would deny that chance. In
fact, all of the killing seems to have gone the other way.
By your logic, we would somehow be better off as a nation if
the federal government had not stepped in to begin
eliminating that situation. Maybe in some alternate reality
that's true, but not in this one.
And by the way we actually tried that tiny central
government structure. The basis for it was the Articles of
Confederation.
Didn't work then, won't work now. The main reason was that
states were free to ignore requests to help fund the federal
military, among other things. And they did ignore such
requests.
So, do you live in a red state? Are you campaigning to have
the state give back the surplus funds it gets from the
federal government? By surplus funds I mean the amount that
the state receives from the federal government over and
above the revenue that the state contributes in the form of
taxes.
And given the strength of your beliefs, how can you use the
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 09:39 PM EST |
Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Monte about Methanol
...the “in depth” scientific laced discussion/interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=MS_gCcevZqY
** Watch an amazing New Zealand Dr Monte lecture on Methanol
(individual list of 10 videos here):
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL717BFA7373335D1C
http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/monte-diet/
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