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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:24 PM
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"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not by
the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." --Abbie Hoffman


A great quote I saw on a bumpersticker today.





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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:26 PM
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1. That's a great quote.
How does the U.S. in general measure up?

How does the republican party?

The democratic party?
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converted_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:27 PM
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2. That's a great quote...n/t
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:50 PM
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3. Hope you were walking by the car that was on...
...'cause DAMN! That's a lot to put on one bumper sticker.

:)
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 05:57 PM
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4. Not walking!
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 05:57 PM by Lex
I did find the vendor of the bumpersticker though:
http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/5577.html


It was pretty easy to read, but we were all moving in traffic fairly slowly.



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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 07:24 PM
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5. Yeah, Northern Sun has some great stuff!
Glad to hear you weren't risking life and limb to read a bumper sticker. :)
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