pudge's Journal: Crazy Quotes

As seen on PATRIOT Act story:

• If you believe that you are a "Citizen of the United States" you are probably misinformed. "The United States" refers only to DC and territories held by the federal government. If you live in one of the 50 States, you are a "Citizen of The State of ___________" and since your State has agreements with the other 49 you are, by extention a "Citizen of the united States of America" (note the lowercase u).
• You, sir, must not believe in freedom from your rhetoric you spew. It is my firm belief that those who are against a concept should be separated from the said concept. You clearly believe that systems where [ctitizen rights] abuses are impossible do not exist. Therefore, you do not belong in a system where abuses are non-existant, ever.

Great stuff.

Patriot Act Supporters/Detractors

[dexterpexter]

Wow. Simply, wow. Thank-you for those.

I am by no means a fan of all parts of the Patriot Act, and I can say that I have actually sat down and taken the time to read parts of it. My intention here isn't to comment on what I do and don't agree with, it's about observations of the discussions surrounding it.

One observation I have made regarding comments attached to articles about the PATRIOT Act is that its loudest supporters or detractors are usually the ones who haven't read a word of it. I have heard

Here's how I sum up the patriot act

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Kudos to a Republican whose name escapes me atm for the quote I'm about to paraphrase.

It's redundant. Where it's not redundant it's excessive. Where it's not excessive or redundant it's useless.

There really isn't much NEW stuff in it.

Re:Here's how I sum up the patriot act

[dexterpexter]

Buffer,

This is why, in addition to your humouring my zombie obsession, I enjoy your online company. I will be in Waltimore DC for a few months, and we have got to meetup.

If you *do* run down the origins of that quote (only if you happen across it--don't go out of the way to find it, though), I would love to know who said it. It's very to the point and better said than I. I would like to use it, but would like to know to whom I should attribute it.

Cheers,
dex

moderation

[helix400]

Personally, I found that thread amusing simply to watch how comments were moderated.

Now why don't you leave them alone pudge, you Troll.

*sigh*

[M.C. Hampster]

I grew up in a household that was a cross between far-right wing politics and this weird, conspiratorial libertarian politics. I heard a lot of this growing up. Now, whenever I heard people start saying that I'm not a citizen of the United States, or they start talking about lowercase u's vs. uppercase u's, I have to just laugh and walk away.

A lil' history on Pledge of Allegiance...

[Dark Coder]

I've often wondered about how the wording to the pledge of allegiance came into a full blown multi-verse wordings...

http://www.homeofheroes.com/hallofheroes/1st_fl o or /flag/1bfc_pledge.html

Thus it is that when you Pledge Allegiance to the United States Flag, You:

*Promise your loyalty to the Flag itself.
*Promise your loyalty to your own and the other 49 States.
*Promise your loyalty to the Government that unites us all,
Recognizing that we are ONE Nation under God,
That we can not or sho

Morons

[Saint Nobody]

Such blatant dumbassery almost makes me ashamed to be a rabid left wing lilly-livered liberal; but it still doesn't, because I know I'm right.