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October 2008 
"Freedom"
Posted on Jul 26th, 2008
by 
Jeff
Jeff
I am so sick of conservatives using the word "Freedom" to mean "any American policy or perspective".
This is in response to this article: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bolton26-2008jul26,0,4923423.story
He says the Berlin wall was built because of "the implacable hostility of communism toward freedom."
I can guarantee you, the people who started the communist movement did not say "let's see here...what's the best form of government to deny everyone's rights...."
I'm no proponent of communism, but it's my understanding that the idea was to reverse what was seen as the lack of freedom that capitalism imposed on people.
So the Communists would probably say "those capitalists hate freedom."
Propaganda is propaganda, regardless of which side it supports.
Just like all these pundits and politicians say terrorists "hate freedom."
And yet John Bolton accuses Obama of being naive.
No one hates freedom.
They might have many reasons to attack someone else's freedom, but its not because they hate freedom itself. That's absolutely rediculous.
Yet all the conservatives do is keep drumming up this new wacky sense of patriotism by dropping the word freedom all over.
There's a lot more that makes America great than just "freedom."
This is in response to this article: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bolton26-2008jul26,0,4923423.story
He says the Berlin wall was built because of "the implacable hostility of communism toward freedom."
I can guarantee you, the people who started the communist movement did not say "let's see here...what's the best form of government to deny everyone's rights...."
I'm no proponent of communism, but it's my understanding that the idea was to reverse what was seen as the lack of freedom that capitalism imposed on people.
So the Communists would probably say "those capitalists hate freedom."
Propaganda is propaganda, regardless of which side it supports.
Just like all these pundits and politicians say terrorists "hate freedom."
And yet John Bolton accuses Obama of being naive.
No one hates freedom.
They might have many reasons to attack someone else's freedom, but its not because they hate freedom itself. That's absolutely rediculous.
Yet all the conservatives do is keep drumming up this new wacky sense of patriotism by dropping the word freedom all over.
There's a lot more that makes America great than just "freedom."
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