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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 05:57 PM
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Don't Join the Book Burners. Who Said this?
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book as long as that document does not offend your own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, and what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men and why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It is almost a religion albeit on eof the nether regions.

And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their RIGHT to say them, their Right to record them and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned or it isnt America.


DDE
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 05:59 PM
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1. Dwight D. Eisenhower. n/t
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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 06:16 PM
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3. yup
and if you change out one word, it is still relevant and he was a "gasp" republican
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 06:12 PM
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2. K&R n/t
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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 06:47 PM
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4. I think even DDE would be shunned by the repuke party
in today's nutbattery
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 07:48 PM
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5. I know he would.
I remember Ike. I liked Ike! Of course I was heavily invested in toy soldiering and Mattel's machine guns at the time as I was about 10. :) Hell, Mr. Conservative himself, Barry Goldwater couldn't get a fair shake with these numbskulls. And he was for gays in the military!




- Even Reagan couldn't get a fair hearing with these guys. Of course he'd be a Zombie now and he's probably still tired from 2008's campaign, but still.....

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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-06-11 03:49 PM
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6. true
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