Tom Yossarian Joad
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:39 AM
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We are the Nation of Punishers! |
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Edited on Sat Aug-26-06 07:41 AM by Tom Yossarian Joad
Have sex? You deserve the unwanted pregnancy or STD!
Smoke a Joint? You deserve to be in prison!
Drive home with no accidents after a glass of wine? You deserve to go to prison!
Cross the border to dig ditches for minimum wage? You deserve to be deported or go to prison!
Infringe on a gun owner's rights? You deserve to be shot!
Can't afford medical care? You deserve to die!
Question authority? Bet your ass you need to be punished.
I know I've missed a lot. Throw in what I missed.
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:45 AM
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1. How about the combos like having sex after some wine and a joint? |
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:46 AM
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2. One of the pitfalls of our Voyeuristic Society We've built,being Judgmental |
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is now a tool, instead of a Burden of evidence.
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:47 AM
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3. Try to think, you get a lobotomy |
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then you can join the freeptards.
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:52 AM
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4. We are Revenge Junkies. |
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We are just about 2 steps away from putting prisoners in Roman-type Circuses and public executions. Stocks and pillories, too.
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Tom Yossarian Joad
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Sat Aug-26-06 07:56 AM
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5. We really are. You are spot on. I'd like to see a psychological breakdown |
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of this abbhoration. Is it because we really feel powerless in the directions of our lives?
We have the largest percapita prison population in the free world. Our "enemies" have less. Much less.
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:22 AM
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6. We are not immune, either |
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Just check out any of the DU Pedo Frenzies that crop up every so often. If there's a pedophile in the news (as there has been with John Mark Karr lately), there will be a couple of these threads going. Actually, they have been a little less active than I would have thought, probably because of the possibility that Karr could be living in a fantasy world. But the mere mention of Michael Jackson or Woody Allen has been enough to get hundred-post Pedo Frenzies going.
There's also the DU contingent that likes to twist the knife into the poor schmucks who run afoul of bad laws: "The Law is the Law, and he should have known the Consequences beforehand." The classic sang-froid Internet lawyer.
Sometimes it seems like we're a nation of 300 million voyeuristic children crowded under the bedroom window of the neighbor kid next door who's getting a long, merciless, bare-ass lickin' from an enraged, drunk parent using a belt that says "In God We Trust".
--p!
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Tom Yossarian Joad
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:24 AM
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7. You have tagged the inpetus of the OP exactly. Thank you. |
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:27 AM
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.................You deserve G W Bush
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Tom Yossarian Joad
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:28 AM
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9. That one went over my head? |
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:36 AM
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Edited on Sat Aug-26-06 08:37 AM by orpupilofnature57
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Sat Aug-26-06 08:57 AM
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11. Sorry Republican voters Deserve the shrub n/t |
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Sat Aug-26-06 09:01 AM
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12. Agreed ! Welcome to D.U. |
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