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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 771836" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><span style="color: #315771">Montgomery</span>— <strong>Martin Luther King knew that organizing for voting rights in Alabama could get him and others killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks later he said, when white militants located an organizer/leader and hung him from the nearest oak tree.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>"You don't for one minute think that religious teaching didn't factor in to this violent act do you?"</strong></p><p></p><p>In order to be consistent, one can't pick and choose to focus on just one example of abuse from just one small segment of human society while ignoring the much broader segment. In some cases, do we ignore these abuses because the societal players allow our society to drive an economic benefit while the society we choose to condemn actually resists, regardless of reasons and their choices making sense to us? What would our larger society and gov't policy be if the economic aadvantage to us all of a sudden become very, very profittable? Would we still have the courage and principle to condemn or would we just park the abuses in the background and just watch our national bank account grow? Ironic that in the mid 90's our <a href="http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">own gov't foreign policy and US interests</span></a> backed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#United_States" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Taliban into power</span></a> in Afghanistan and things were just rosy into the late 1990's until the Taliban began to stray from the gameplan and <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI203A.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">entertain another economic partner.</span></a></p><p></p><p>How do we condemn our own gov't for trying to make us live a certain way when we feel they are wrong, centrally plan all aspects of our economic lives or we just think our own personal way is better and yet we condemn others who in effect are doing the same although in some cases they resort to the extreme of violence? Often as after-effects from the reactions of others to counter freedom of choice in national self-determination. Have we ourselves not ever resorted to violence to either gain the right to self determine or in our own minds believe we are protecting and preserving that right from other alleged states we are told want to take this right from us?</p><p></p><p>The fact is, in many respects we've seen <a href="http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">this whole story before</span></a> and not that long ago and yet we refuse to look at, much less learn from our own history and then we wonder why the rest of the world "hates us!"</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">Maybe it's not our so-called freedom but our utter hypocrisy that they hate!</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 771836, member: 2189"] [COLOR=#315771]Montgomery[/COLOR]— [B]Martin Luther King knew that organizing for voting rights in Alabama could get him and others killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks later he said, when white militants located an organizer/leader and hung him from the nearest oak tree.[/B] [B]"You don't for one minute think that religious teaching didn't factor in to this violent act do you?"[/B] In order to be consistent, one can't pick and choose to focus on just one example of abuse from just one small segment of human society while ignoring the much broader segment. In some cases, do we ignore these abuses because the societal players allow our society to drive an economic benefit while the society we choose to condemn actually resists, regardless of reasons and their choices making sense to us? What would our larger society and gov't policy be if the economic aadvantage to us all of a sudden become very, very profittable? Would we still have the courage and principle to condemn or would we just park the abuses in the background and just watch our national bank account grow? Ironic that in the mid 90's our [URL='http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm'][COLOR=red]own gov't foreign policy and US interests[/COLOR][/URL] backed the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#United_States'][COLOR=red]Taliban into power[/COLOR][/URL] in Afghanistan and things were just rosy into the late 1990's until the Taliban began to stray from the gameplan and [URL='http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI203A.html'][COLOR=red]entertain another economic partner.[/COLOR][/URL] How do we condemn our own gov't for trying to make us live a certain way when we feel they are wrong, centrally plan all aspects of our economic lives or we just think our own personal way is better and yet we condemn others who in effect are doing the same although in some cases they resort to the extreme of violence? Often as after-effects from the reactions of others to counter freedom of choice in national self-determination. Have we ourselves not ever resorted to violence to either gain the right to self determine or in our own minds believe we are protecting and preserving that right from other alleged states we are told want to take this right from us? The fact is, in many respects we've seen [URL='http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803'][COLOR=red]this whole story before[/COLOR][/URL] and not that long ago and yet we refuse to look at, much less learn from our own history and then we wonder why the rest of the world "hates us!" [B][SIZE=3]Maybe it's not our so-called freedom but our utter hypocrisy that they hate![/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]
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