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| Fifth Column |
| Gore Vidal sez we're a 'seedy imperial state' |
| 2002-04-28 |
| "Finally, the physical damage Bin Laden and friends can do us - terrible as it has been thus far - is as nothing compared to what he is doing to our liberties. Once alienated, an "inalienable right" is apt to be lost forever, in which case we are no longer even remotely the last best hope of Earth but merely a seedy imperial state whose citizens are kept in line by Swat teams and whose way of death, not life, is universally imitated." And Vidal is a goof who once may have had something to say, but is now squarely in his dotage. Once a person is dead, he or she is gone forever, just like those inalienable rights, the first of which is life and the second of which is liberty. We're fighting a war against people who not only slam aircraft full of screaming non-combatants into tall buildings also full of screaming non-combatants, but also kill women and children and babies and want to impose their thuggish way of life on the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wants it or not. Remember: "The final hour will not come until the Muslims conquer the White House." We didn't declare jihad on them. They declared jihad on us. Now we're giving it to them, whether aging limoradicals like it or not. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |