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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 02:46 PM EDT |
When Ridenhour wrote to 30 U.S. senators about the My Lai massacre and coverup,
only two could be interested in it. The late Mo Udall was one. He had a law
degree and sounds like someone I'd be proud to have shaken hands with.
Two out of thirty is pretty embarrassing. One sees a similar ratio of senators
nowadays who can be interested in bothering about the administration and NSA
trampling the constitution.
Every representative mistaking pro-US and against-US to be the same as right and
wrong is _not_ able to correct a bad course (since any taken course by
definition has to be good) and thus is doing _nothing_ for his country.
If you have a congress full of followers waiting to look what their fellow
followers will do, crooks will buy themselves just a few leaders and get the
rest as a present.
The lack of effective morals and leadership is what makes lobbying a no-brainer
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 26 2013 @ 08:46 AM EDT |
In Abe's day, most people in this country actually had a moral base and a
functional conscience. But that changed significantly during the last century,
to the point where SCOTUS kicked God out of the classroom and many public
functions. The country's morals got kicked out right along with Him. The best
that can be said now is that our society is amoral, so Abe's position is no
longer relevant. Many have tried to define ethics as the new basis for behavior,
but without a moral foundation with its absolutes of right and wrong, ethics can
only produce a relativistic, and therefore infinitely variable stance.
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