Re: Of Spirit and Fire (and sex with farm animals)

I've been noting the Ashcroft-bashing, (he can't be bashed enough), and was
thinking about the Vonnegut articles about dismantling the constitution, &
it got me searching for an old quote in the back of my head. Found it:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Ben Franklin
tina

>Well, I've read all the posts today and see only two that need any response
>from me.
>
>First, to Luke...
>
>Although you might like to reduce my position to simplistic nonsense, your
>notion that I cannot use the preservation of the Bill of Rights and what I
>happen to feel are simple, pleasant human freedoms as an argument in favor
>of
>crucifying this moron is simply absurd. Nothing in my position says any
>such thing.
>
>John Ashcroft is a slimy, sanctimonious lizard who believes the world
>should
>be Christianized and that he can rewrite the Constitution at will based on
>nothing more than what you naively call his "faith" and then pretend it's
>in the
>best interests of the American people because he's protecting us from
>religious fanatics like himself who just happen to bow and scrape to a
>different
>story.
>
>Besides that, he routinely has sex with sheep, and perhaps other farm
>animals
>as well. And I feel in no way compelled or even interested in proving any
>of
>this to you. It's all easy enough for anyone to see.
>
>And yes, the problem is both power and faith. And with dudes like Ashcroft
>spitting their hatred and paranoia and trying to pry his drooling, leering
>way
>into my bedroom and Christian fanatics burning books and Muslim fanatics
>flying planes into buildings and preachers bilking retirees out of the
>money they
>need to live and priests poking twelve year old boys in the rectory and all
>of
>the rest of it, I feel no hesitation at all in crying out "Save me from
>this
>'Faith.'"
>
>Thankful for the non-faithful,
>
>--John
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Received on Tue Aug 5 19:26:35 2003