that lynch mob attitude has a name...its called "social mobbing"...it happens in schools and workplaces when a person is singled out for exclusion or removal...those juvenile tactics don't bother me but institutional censorship does...maybe i'll get used to it after i'm banned a few more times for having incongruent opinions...i am the one who deserves an apology but in the interests of making peace, i'll be the big man and make a grand apology for my qualified statement about parasites...then maybe they'll let me join their treehouse club! RAPTURE!!

i see you're trying to hijack this thread to make political statements about freedom again...tsk tsk...where's NWM to protect me from reading something i don't agree with???

having recently been virtually beheaded myself in the name of freedom, i can identify with the situation in iraq...those iraqis sure are anxious to express their gratitude for liberation...they didn't even wait for democracy!

i tell ya toker, i feel awful about the situation in iraq...you're good at making logical points about freedom but our version of freedom is incompatible with some cultures...in iraq's case, i think there is a large enough secular base to build a society based on restricted freedoms that will hopefully expand as it evolves politically and culturally...in the short run, iraq is a failure but in the medium term, i believe iraq will achieve stability and democracy...in the long term: who knows? i think the worst thing that could happen in the long term is an iran-styled islamic revolution and one of the factors that would encourage an islamic revolution is continued western intervention...as much as i hate bin laden, i gotta agree with him that western powers have to stop using military force to achieve political objectives over there

too bad the united nations moderators can't ban the global freedom haters...nah, they'd probably just ban the noisy inconvenient people who exercise free speech to air controversial opinions...BAH!


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