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Bear 45/70 wrote:
marshaul wrote:
I choose to walk the high road, my friend. Intolerance will not defeat right. Ignorance bears its own defeat.
On TV and in the movies maybe, but history proves you wrong way to often.
Funny, because I don't watch TV, but I do read history. Suffice it to say, I think you're wrong. No doubt evil has had its time on many occasions throughout history. But that history doesn't teach us that meeting intolerance with intolerance is the solution to anything.
BlaineG wrote:
IMO, you're allowing the opposition way too much wiggle room......The ACLU does not support conservative values. The rights they do support are all left leaning. I cannot not think of one conservative position they are for. When left leaning lawyers get thru with The Heller deal, we might well wish for pre-Heller conditions.......
Well, I don't support "conservative" values either. There are no "left-leaning" rights. Rights are rights. Period.
This divisive, "left vs right" attitude is the very thing the ACLU are themselves guilty of with their stance on the 2nd amendment. I choose to be the better man, avoid being part of the problem, and recognize right as right, be it "left-leaning" or "right-leaning."
Personally, I no longer have any idea what "left" and "right" mean. America's political spectrum has become so corrupted with divisive language and attitudes, themselves the very tools used to distract the American people with endless bickering across imaginary lines, when in reality we all want the Liberty that is our birthright.
Edit: By the way, RICO itself is an egregious abuse. The very crimes it seeks to prevent are created by government's own illogical, harmful prohibitions on activities we have every right to engage in and it has no right to regulate. In effect, the government created organized crime so it could say, "Look at all this crime! Safety trumps liberty! Give us power to stop the problems we created, so those problems can get worse, we can ask for more power, and the vicious cycle can spiral out of control!"