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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 01:53 PM Original message |
When did the people of the United States become terrified cowards? |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. Read the history of Nazi Germany |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. Around the time of Ronald Reagan |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. when he did away with the fairness doctrine |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. The short answer is that it didn't happen that quickly. |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. agreed |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. september 11,2001 |
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PM Martin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. I agree. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. November 23, 1963 |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. I Would Say "Good Estimate" |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Yup. No debating that one. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. I would say this has gone on for a long time |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. somewhere around thanksgiving in '99 I believe it was |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's been a long time coming. |
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Hieronymus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'm really discouraged by the reactions of our government and |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. We've always had bogeymen to be afraid of. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. I don't know when you were born but this |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Well, since I was around during McCarthy & HUAC and I disagree. I had a ton of |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
13. When we became mass consumers. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. That and combine that with rule by chickenhawks... |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. And a huge imbalance in the way they spend money on the country |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. There is no "fear" of the ads, or words and debates. Only the attempts to suppress them. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. December12, 2000. We appointed a terrified coward to the Presidency. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
21. B...but 9/11 changed everything? Support our troops? |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
22. It started with Woodrow Wilson and enactment of the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-24-07 02:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. '911 changed everything', come on now |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-25-07 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
26. As Mencken wryly noted, |
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