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AN eight-year-old boy was saved by his uncle on a Florida beach after a shark bit off his right arm.
Election day was a shambles and the counting of the ballots resolved itself into a multitude of little battles between the Knights and the embattled individualists.
-Heinlein "For us the Living"
The English word eunuch is from the Greek eune ("bed") and ekhein ("to keep"), effectively "bed keeper." Servants or slaves were usually castrated in order to make them safer servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence – seemingly lowly domestic functions such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter or even relaying messages, giving him "the ruler's ear" could impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant, as reflected in the humble origins and etymology of many high offices (e.g. chancellor started out as a servant guarding the entrance to an official's study). Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, or to a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least), and were thus seen as more trustworthy and less interested in establishing a private 'dynasty'. Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion.
Originally posted by The Cap de Pepene
reply to post by felonius
I don't know how you can lump David Duke together with people like Jackson and Sharpton.
I've read his My Awakening and based on it, I consider him a decent person.
Contrary to popular belief, he doesn't advocate violence against other races, but separation.
And if individuals have a right to separate from other individuals, then don't groups of individuals have a right to separate from other groups of individuals?
Originally posted by felonius
Originally posted by The Cap de Pepene
reply to post by felonius
I don't know how you can lump David Duke together with people like Jackson and Sharpton.
I've read his My Awakening and based on it, I consider him a decent person.
Contrary to popular belief, he doesn't advocate violence against other races, but separation.
And if individuals have a right to separate from other individuals, then don't groups of individuals have a right to separate from other groups of individuals?
Thanks to all that have participated. As you were last Cap, i'll respond to you first.
David Duke was the only "recognizable" clan person I could think of. I dont have any "white power" names to use.
Regardless, I'm called a "nazi" frequently on ATS. So be it.
Duke seemed to me (way back then) to be more of a nationalist or even maybe "racialist". Read that as not being racist but merely supporting his race. Not a bad thing REGARDLESS of who does it.
I apologies and that is my reason.