[privacy] U.S. 'State Secrets' Case May Get Airing

[Drsolly]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 10/8/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
> > I pay attention to human rights violations whenever, and wherever,
> > I see them being egregiously occurring.
> 
> And I bet your paying attention to them has saved countless lives.
> 
> > Humans are humans.
> 
> Some humans are more equal than others, or we wouldn't be having this
> conversation. Some are able to defend themselves and choose not to -
> I'm going to cry less for them. Some are my fellow countryment, I'll
> cry more for them. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with
> expecting your government to help you out wherever you might find
> yourself.
> 
> > When draw arbitrary lines separating atrocities along any other
> > lines, then you are buying into the politics of the purveyors of
> > the atrocities themselves.
> 
> Prioritizing does not make one a monster.
> 
> > Be for real, and stop being disingenuous in your efforts to
> > continuing to propagate the same old damaging mentality.
> 
> Realism does indeed suck - but eventually you must grow up.
> 
> > Thinking like yours is responsible for the resulting hatred
> > the rest of the world feels the U.S Government.
> >
> > The American people need to desperately change that.
> 
> We don't have to be loved, only respected, and we get that in spades
> from every thinking regime in the world.

   ... for some definitions of "thinking" ...