tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post8778813308868447983..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Bush Administration View of American PrinciplesAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-63687200632276557192007-08-31T10:02:00.000-06:002007-08-31T10:02:00.000-06:00Nice post. Thought your comment about "those who a...Nice post. Thought your comment about "those who are most eager to defend the flag are least eager to defend what it stands for" was insightful.<BR/><BR/>Kind of related is this article I came across in the Guardian recently: <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html" REL="nofollow">Fascist America, in 10 easy steps</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-46166879403713539332007-08-29T12:41:00.000-06:002007-08-29T12:41:00.000-06:00simply awesome.funny, i read it in an "Agent Smith...simply awesome.<BR/><BR/>funny, i read it in an "Agent Smith" voice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-79420644527377940192007-08-29T00:05:00.000-06:002007-08-29T00:05:00.000-06:00Another splendid post, Alonzo. The wholesale scrap...Another splendid post, Alonzo. The wholesale scrapping of civil liberties in both the US and the UK is one of the most sinister and alarming aspects of post 9/11 events. The misconceived "war on terror" has been turned by the US and UK governments into war upon the historic freedoms of their own peoples.<BR/><BR/>As a result, we are nearer to Orwell's nightmare world of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" than I ever thought we would be in my long lifeltime [and I am nearly 80]. If bin Laden is still alive, he must be exultant.<BR/><BR/>These measures are the outcome either of irrational fear, or of a calculated bid by our governments to snatch more powers for themselves and to stifle dissent. Probably a mixture of both. <BR/><BR/>Some of Bush's pronouncements are startlingly reminiscent of those of Hitler when he first gained power in Germany and rapidly proceeded to dismantle the democratic Weimar constitution. <BR/><BR/>John Philpot Curran [1750-1817] said: "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition, if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."<BR/><BR/>Keep on stirring up the vigilance, Alonzo!anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.com