[GCFL-discuss] Tearjerker story

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Only YOU could distroy such a tearjerker. Using your "friend", whether or
not they truly exist, as an example of why we can't believe this story is
absurd. (Sorry Frank I know you said no replies to personal comments.) I
don't think you could honestly say either front runners for Presidency
are going to do any of us any good. And honestly if I had to guess, I'd
bet in the end both have nearly the same outcomes. No matter WHO's in the
Presidency. Both are spoiled rich brats who only have their sponors in
mind. Only YOU Siarlys would be willing to destroy anyone's happiness.

God bless,
Ben
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:18:18 -0500 gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net writes:
> That's a beautiful story.
> 
> I had a friend once, a very close co-worker, who used to settle any
> argument not going their way by throwing out an analogy. Since the 
> first
> half is obvious, therefore if I compare the obvious conclusion to
> whatever we are arguing about, I must be right and you must be 
> wrong. The
> facts we were discussing are of no consequence. 
> 
> I could rewrite that story to make it a LITTLE more like real 
> life...
> Suppose mommy and daddy are NOT in charge of your house, there is a
> landlord upstairs who owns everything. Suppose that bad man across 
> the
> street got to live in the house in the first place because the 
> landlord
> upstairs played tricks on the previous owner, and thought the bad 
> man
> would be a more convenient neighbor. Then the landlord and the bad 
> man
> fell out over some neighborhood quarrel. The bad man beat his wife 
> and
> killed his children when he and the landlord were friends, but 
> because he
> helped the landlord beat up some rivals down the block, nobody
> bothered...
> 
> Finally, suppose when the landlord fell out with the bad man, he 
> told you
> to throw bombs into the man's house, which knocked the place half 
> to
> pieces, killed some more of the man's wives and children, and when 
> you
> got the bad man out, a whole gang of thieves he was hiding in his
> basement took over the house, and some other thieves from another
> neighborhood came in to join them, but there were some nice people 
> living
> in the house also... and even the nice people didn't really like or
> appreciate you coming into THEIR yard, or at least they wanted you 
> out
> now that the bad man was in jail...
> 
> It would take forever to straighten this out. Parents will always 
> try to
> instill in their children whatever values the parents believe. That 
> is
> their prerogative. But this story bears little or no resemblance to 
> Iraq,
> the U.S., the U.N., or President Bush. It just doesn't. Yards are 
> not
> nations. Little boys are not presidents -- although the president 
> does
> act like a spoiled little boy most of the time.
> 
> I have a few alternate favorite slogans:
> 
> God Bless America! With a new president.
> 
> Support our troops! Give them a commander in chief with front line 
> combat
> experience.
> 
> and remember, the liberty we prize cannot be GIVEN to anyone, each
> person, family, neighborhood, tribe, clan, nation, people, must take 
> it
> FOR THEMSELVES. We got into Vietnam because President Eisenhower 
> knew
> that if a free election were held there, the guy we didn't want 
> would
> have got 80% of the vote. Liberty IMPOSED on people who DON'T WANT
> exactly what WE DREAM OF FOR THEM is not liberty at all. And if 
> their
> choice is not what we would have chosen for them, then we naturally 
> feel
> they are ungrateful for the sacrifices we did make in good faith 
> for
> them.
> 
> We do have an enemy that attacked us in our own cities and airports. 
> That
> enemy was not based in Iraq. It is still at large in the world 
> today.
> Many of our initial efforts to contain and eliminate that enemy are
> coming undone, because our armed forces are stretched thin in a
> bewildering maze of human desires that don't conform to what we 
> wanted to
> believe we could do in a country that wasn't really the source of 
> the
> direct attack on us.
> 
> Siarlys