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Listening to Barack Obama right now on CNN helps me to better understand why so many of my good and honest “liberal” friends cannot see through his rhetoric and make the break. He is an incredible orator with fantastic speech writers and has mastered the “Orwellian” double-speak. Absolutely incredible how his wonderful words have nothing to do with the truth.
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| — | Daymon J. Hartley via Facebook (via eltigrechico) |
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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| — | Robert Anton Wilson (via mei-gin) |
Data compiled by the New York Police Department as a result of the cityâs controversial focus on stop-and-frisk measures has shown that those suspects who were white were more often to be found in possession of weapons and drugs.
People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’
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| — | Dylan Moran (via pakizah) |
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.
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| — | Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. (via asuperfluousman) |
Contrary to popular belief, Freedom is indeed free. It is tyranny that costs so much.
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| — | mindswideopen (via satans-advocate) |
i am reminded that english is a flawed language every time I am forced to use “that that” in a sentence
On May 1st, Cam was skipping school and messing around online. He posted some lyrics that included a vague reference to the Boston Marathon Bombing and called the Whitehouse a “federal house of horror.” Shortly after that he was arrested and charged with Communicating a Terrorist Threat, a felony that carries 20 years in prison.
The post contained no specific threat of violence against any person or group of people, and in the context of the rest of the lyrics and Cams’ rap persona, it was clearly nothing more than a metaphor. A search of Cam’s house found NO evidence that he was planning any violence, but a judge still ordered him held without bail for the next 3 months, pending trial.
Every single thing this kid did, while certainly rude and foolish, was clearly protected by the First Amendment. However, he remains in jail and has been smeared by local media, making a fair trail an ever more elusive hope.
Click here to read the full story and sign a petition against this outrageous abuse of our right to free speech.
As the petition’s headline comments, “After you read this kid’s story, you’ll think twice about what you post on Facebook. (And that’s the problem.)”
