Quote of the Day 05/21/08
May 21st, 2008 | by Paul Merda |The assault on the king threw politicians and statesmen into panic all over Europe and at once they began to make the penal code more barbarous, the prohibitory laws stricter, and the censorship of the press more complete. There was but one way to deal with the act of a crazy man and that was to persecute and torture thousands of innocent ones. – Clarence Darrow
From: Voltaire
4 Responses to “Quote of the Day 05/21/08”
By Jet Netwal on May 21, 2008 | Reply
“A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.” — Trinity
Or, when we just freaking forget to read to non-revisonist history….
By Paul Merda on May 21, 2008 | Reply
Funny, no matter how much things change, they always remain the same. I did think that line was so apropos for what happened to Amerika after 911… 19 crazy guys fly a plane into a couple of buildings and now we torture and persecute innocent people because of it.
By Chris Radulich on May 21, 2008 | Reply
You have to understand there was a problem to be addressed.
First we lost our most of our fear of communism.
Then we lost some of our fears of black people.
Lately Homosexuals have not been as good for fear mongering.
Without the terrorist who could we quake in our boots at?
There would be nothing left of the republican party.
By Paul Merda on May 21, 2008 | Reply
Hear, hear Chris! We (as in a collective group not necessarily you) agnostics/athiests are still quite the quality target for most people’s prejudice. I guess we will be next.
“Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.” – Scott Adams