Re: [freenet-chat] Which is why . . .

[Aaron P Ingebrigtsen]

Yep, courage is required to stand and fight.  As for stamina, I thought that was merely a physical ability?  You don't absolutely have to fight your enemies physicaly you know.  A brain can do so much more than merely direct huge muscles to pumel things and people. :)   Censorship is hypocracy in this country.  You can't have freedom of speech or freedom of expression if someone else has total control over what you can or cannot say.  Like flag burning.  You may not like it, you may be offended by it, but burning a flag in a disrespectfull maner is an expression of one's opinion, isn't it?  And all people everywhere should have the right to express their opinions in any way they wish as long as they are not hurting anyone else, right?  So flag burning should be perfectly legal, unless you are burning someone who happens to be wearing a flag, or something like that. :)   To think otherwise is to be a hypocrite.  To think that people have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and then to think that they should only be free to express YOUR opinions or the things YOU think are right is total hypocracy.   As for Charleton Heston, I may not agree with him all the time, but who am I to say that he isn't genuine in his opinions or expressions?  Am I a telepath?  Can I read his mind?  NO.  No one can tell me that the opinions I express every day are not really my opinions, because they don't know, and can't know.  Maybe Mr. Heston is just a media act, a publicity stunt, but so what?!  Does that mean that the message isn't genuine, or that it is a lie?  Not necessarily.   As for McVeigh, I am against putting him to death by lethal injection.  I am against the death penalty in general, but if I were for it I wouldn't want to be humane about it.  No sir.  I would want McVeigh to die a long, agonized death by the most extreme forms of torture known to man!!  What he did to those kids, their mothers, and inocent families is beyond my imagination.  I don't understand how he could wreak so much pain and horror with so little thought.  If he must die, then he must feel the full wrath of the People who were hurt or killed by him!!  Period!!  THAT is justice!!!!   I am against the death penalty for several reasons:   1) For the guilty, death is a blessing, not truely a punishment. 2) For the innocent, being killed for a crime they did not commit is a horrible thing, and the system is NOT good enough to kill only the guilty. 3) As for money, if we are killing people just to save money then we should be investing our money in rehab instead of incarciration for most of the convicted criminals in our society.  Are we?  NO!! 4) I think it would be a better idea to rehabilitate those who can be changed, and kick the rest of them out of the country.  And devise some way of keeping them out until their innocense is proven or something.   As for watching it, beware lest the justice system be transformed into a mere media circus, where the guilty are merely those who are most entertaining, and the innocent are those who have enough money, or are not entertaining enough to be overlooked or ignored by the system.   I have watched and read so much in my life about the depravity of the human race.  I know that the media we have today is all about entertainment, and not nearly enough about truth and facts.  I don't want to transform the justice system into another entertainment medium, where the people who are the most guilty are the most entertaining.  If you want to watch someone die, There just might be a problem, some kind of evil that could destroy you.  Beware!!!   On Thu, 10 May 2001 20:30:13 +0200 "Stephen Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Which is why it takes supreme courage, stamina and dedication to stand up and fight for human rights and democracy.  Censorship never works, whatever the reasons for imposing it.  People just turn a blind eye.  Just like guns and the 2nd Ammendment to the Charleton Heston.  His is just an act anyway.  He isn't for real.  Shoot'em up. And let's get that McVeigh dude on the web. We all paid for it, we should get to watch.  Either that, or copy cat.