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Originally posted by madmac5150
reply to post by alldaylong
Why justify corruption by saying that it will always be there? Murder happens everyday, should we not imprison those murderers?
Maybe this is our opportunity to make things right again... they are certainly giving us all the rope we need...
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Originally posted by alldaylong
Originally posted by madmac5150
reply to post by alldaylong
Why justify corruption by saying that it will always be there? Murder happens everyday, should we not imprison those murderers?
Maybe this is our opportunity to make things right again... they are certainly giving us all the rope we need...
Did you read what i stated? Corruption is an endemic consequence of people in power. It always has been and it always will be. People in power are always open to the sleaze that power brings. Just go through the history of your own country and you will find that every government has been involved in something corrupt. Come back and tell me i am wrong.
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever." G. Orwell
I agree with your post but in your quote at the end you used the words "giving us" who is us and what are they going to do?
Originally posted by madmac5150
reply to post by alldaylong
Why justify corruption by saying that it will always be there? Murder happens everyday, should we not imprison those murderers?
Maybe this is our opportunity to make things right again... they are certainly giving us all the rope we need...
Originally posted by benrl
1984 wasn't meant to be a how to book...
Call it a scandal and only that, Scandals are things celebrity's get into, something that we have been programed to believe is minor and easily overcome through a minor act of attrition, like rehab or apologize.edit on 16-6-2013 by benrl because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by alldaylong
There have been corrupt governments all around the world since the birth of national governments hundreds of years ago. If people really think that this is going to change, they must be on substances. If one corrupt governments is removed, it's replaced by another. And on it goes repeatedly.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by alldaylong
There have been corrupt governments all around the world since the birth of national governments hundreds of years ago. If people really think that this is going to change, they must be on substances. If one corrupt governments is removed, it's replaced by another. And on it goes repeatedly.
Then its time to look at what is causing the corruption. Is it money? Is it masonry? Is it the pope or other religious heads? Is it malevolent aliens? Is it bilderbergers? A combination of all the above? Sure why not!