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Monday
Mar292010

Quote of the Day II

DateMonday, March 29, 2010 at 7:03PM

From Robert Freeman:

[I]n an open society it is the consent of the governed that is required to sustain major policy initiatives. A government can either earn that consent, or it must forfeit the essence of its democracy. If lying becomes its essential modus operandi, a nation ceases to be a democracy. Rather, it becomes a criminal conspiracy of self-interested insiders donning the trappings of democracy in order to gull the credulous.

(h/t: @Shoq)

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    Source: Celebrating (Mourning) a Culture of Lies
    by Robert Freeman at Common Dreams on March 27, 2010
    Tomorrow, March 29th, marks the thirty-seventh anniversary of America's withdrawal from Vietnam. You won't hear it celebrated in any mainstream media, though it should be. Or more precisely, it should be mourned. Vietnam is the first war America ever lost.

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