When I was a child....



.... I had an imaginary friend. I thought he could listen when I talked, that
he went everywhere with me and that he could grant me wishes... Then I grew
up..

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Les


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http://armsofmorpheus.blogspot.com/

American's definition of torture is ridiculously tight (requiring as it
does the death or organ failure of the tortured person before it is defined
as such) . He argues that the US is almost certainly in breach of the wider
definition of torture that is enshrined in the UN Torture Treaty to which
the Americans and Britain's are signatures.

Channel 4 News "Snowmail" 6 Dec 2005

"...The people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger "

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759




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