Category Archives: politics

The Conservative View of Gay Soldiers 0

This is what conservatives fear will happen if we allow homosexual men and women to serve openly in the military.

Categories: the right

Published:
February 16, 2010 – 10:30 am
Author:
By Friar_Zero

A Few Quotes on Corporate Democracy 0

I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it’s  birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.
– Thomas Jefferson
You and I don’t have the same access to or influence over [...]

Categories: politics, quotes, tab dump

Published:
February 4, 2010 – 10:30 am
Author:
By Friar_Zero

Why Torture Matters 9

If you really believe in equal rights for all humans then those rights must be applied even to these men. If you cherish your own access to due process and fair treatment but want to deny these men those same rights then you don’t believe in human rights.

Categories: culture, ethics, politics, rights, war

Published:
August 27, 2009 – 9:30 am
Author:
By Friar_Zero

Mob Rule 3

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge [...]

Categories: demagoguery, politics

Published:
August 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Author:
By Friar_Zero

Long Ago in Hawaii 1

I’m sorry to break the news to those who are politically or personally opposed to Barack Obama, especially 6 months late, but he is the President. He fits all the criteria set forth in the constitution and is exercising his duties under that same constitutional authority. Why do I have to remind these [...]

Categories: politics, the right

Published:
July 23, 2009 – 10:00 am
Author:
By Eris Totle