Originally posted by: Czar
no leadership should EVER enjoy the benifit of the doubt because the point of leadership is trust
Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Kind of like Iraq???
Methinks you took this too seriously.Originally posted by: charrison
I dont think anyone has been found guilty yet.Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Kind of like Iraq???Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Kind of like Iraq???
Originally posted by: Dissipate
You bet it is. Look at all the trillions of dollars we let Big Brother spend willy nilly. On top of that we let the government borrow hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Plus, Americans don't mind when they are forced by the government to reveal their income and all other private financial aspects of their lives, in fact it is considered "patriotic".
Americans also gave the government the benefit of the doubt back in 1913 when control of the entire U.S. economy was handed over to a private bank.
Originally posted by: Bowfinger
Methinks you took this too seriously.Originally posted by: charrison
I dont think anyone has been found guilty yet.Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Kind of like Iraq???Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Our intelligence essentially comes from "supposition and rumour", especially in a case like Iraq where we didn't have direct human intelligence after 1998. Based on this intelligence, i.e., supposition and rumour, we believed the worst about Iraq. This isn't an indictment, it's a clever observation drawn from etech's comment. It's a mild, funny zinger.
Originally posted by: etech
So you are saying that Saddam was innocent of everything, he never had weapons programs, he never defied the UN Security Council resolutions and he is now up for Sainthood.
Got it. There is something funny about your post, but it's not humerous.
Whatever you say.Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: Bowfinger
Methinks you took this too seriously.Originally posted by: charrison
I dont think anyone has been found guilty yet.Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Kind of like Iraq???Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Our intelligence essentially comes from "supposition and rumour", especially in a case like Iraq where we didn't have direct human intelligence after 1998. Based on this intelligence, i.e., supposition and rumour, we believed the worst about Iraq. This isn't an indictment, it's a clever observation drawn from etech's comment. It's a mild, funny zinger.
So you are saying that Saddam was innocent of everything, he never had weapons programs, he never defied the UN Security Council resolutions and he is now up for Sainthood.
Got it. There is something funny about your post, but it's not humerous.
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Now assuming that the USA has a right to impose it's government on all countries is the basis for most people's blind faith in it in these situations is understandable
Originally posted by: etech
Innocent until proven guilty is a tenet of American society.
Believing the worst based on only supposition and rumour is a good way to destroy a country.
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Absolute power corrupts those who can be corrupted. At least one elf refused the Ring.
I think evil is the product of the unconscious, the desire to stay that way. If so, he question then is, can the mind cast light where it's dark. If so, that would be known only to those who know by having done so. Only the awake know who is awake would be my guess.Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Absolute power corrupts those who can be corrupted. At least one elf refused the Ring.
Hehehehe
Evil uses corruption to gather power with the goal being to gather absolute power. Or.. Evil uses absolute power to breed the corrupted use of the power. So, IMO it follows that evil is the motivator and to the extent evil is corruption is...
I know of one elf too.. but, only one..
That's why there's a snooze button on the alarm.. to deal with reality later... Step softly lest you awaken the sleepy..Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I think evil is the product of the unconscious, the desire to stay that way. If so, he question then is, can the mind cast light where it's dark. If so, that would be known only to those who know by having done so. Only the awake know who is awake would be my guess.Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Absolute power corrupts those who can be corrupted. At least one elf refused the Ring.
Hehehehe
Evil uses corruption to gather power with the goal being to gather absolute power. Or.. Evil uses absolute power to breed the corrupted use of the power. So, IMO it follows that evil is the motivator and to the extent evil is corruption is...
I know of one elf too.. but, only one..