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AG78 Donating Member (840 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 11:19 AM
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14. Never, ever...
Edited on Fri Mar-19-04 11:21 AM by AG78
think about our policies. No, that's not why someone would hate us. It's all about our "freedom", whatever it may be.

We have the "freedom" to chose between a red car or a blue car, but our opinion, while we're allowed to express it, doesn't really mean much.

We'll never ask you to sacrifice anything, because to do so, would cause you to think about why we're there. To tell you to continue to shop, spend, and consume, keeps your mind busy.

We're a chosen people, we're on a mission. Our way is the only way. Never doubt it. But even if you do, you have no power. We'll keep you working day and night just to get by. We'll tell you to start up a small business, only to have it trampled over by Wal-Mart in due time.

We're not about violence. We spend about $460 billion a year on our military. The next closest, China, spends something like $25 billion. We have bases everywhere, not that we tell you. We're about freedom. The freedom to control and direct what happens anywhere.

I understand why we do it. I was watching The Discovery Channel last night. It was a show about Roman times, and how each group went to war, or teamed up with one another to fight a war. That's all this is. We, as humans, are no different than we were hundreds of years ago. When you watch it, you see it's the same exact world. All the dressing they give about freedom, liberty, blah, blah, blah, it's all pointless.

America won't last forever. Nothing ever has.
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