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Joined: 9/29/2004 From: Snowflake, Arizona Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: William Amos If anything the anti war movement paralized this nations for a decade. And is poised to do so again. It wasn't the anti-war movement that paralyzed this nation for a decade, it was the costs of a war that we never should have gotten involved in that discouraged and depressed America. Bloody wars throughout history have a tendency to do that... witness the aftermath of the carnage of World War I. It wasn't some kind of "theoretical peace movement" that allowed Hitler's rise. It was the long lasting public revulsion about war caused by the millions of casualties. One could blame "the anti-war movement" but such movements only have power when they tap into underlying public sentiments and concerns. If it hadn't been for the 1960's peace movement, we could have lost 180,000 men in Vietnam, killed more millions of Vietnamese, and still eventually lost. Peace movements serve a purpose... they insure that the government has a conscience and that unpleasant truths can't be suppressed. If you want to live in a free country, you need those protesters and you need public debate. Trying to suppress both with charges of "unpatriotic!... traitorous! leads only to authoritarianism.
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Love & Peace, Far Dareis Mai My old Piczo site seems to be gone, so no more Navajo Nation pics :(
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