From: TKeske@Comcast.net   
      
   Just to clarify, if anyone is wondering, what is   
   this peculiar, one-eyed man doing here, with Mr. Linker   
   and SRAT, etc.   Is it any animosity toward France?   
      
   Mon Dieu, horreurs, non!    I detest the arrogant   
   attitudes of many Americans against France.   
      
   Please rest assured that it is animosity toward the   
   United States.   I agree heartily that the U.S. is   
   dangerous, ignorant, irresponsible, self-centered,   
   corrupted to a degree that most of its citizens can   
   barely fathom.   It is a country of rigged elections,   
   political murders,  poisoned atmosphere.   
      
   Alexis de Tocqueville is strangely popular with   
   American conservatives- because he was flattering   
   of the country, but that was long ago.   The country   
   has been taken over by mobsters and haters.   
      
   What Tocqueville ever said that is of modern relevance   
   was something about "tyranny of the majority"- a phrase   
   which he coined, but his modern conservative admirers   
   completely forget.   
      
   If you want to understand my preoccupation with France,   
   it is quotes like those below that resonate with me.   
      
   I would have loved to be in the Sorbonne in 1968.   
   That is the spirit into which I am tapping- the antidote   
   to everything for which the current American regime   
   stands.   
      
   Tom Keske   
      
   > "Worn-out religions resemble those old trees that are nothing   
   > but bark. They go on vegetating and casting their shadow over   
   > the soil until the day comes that a flash of lightning, or the   
   > axe of the woodcutter, strikes them, and they fall a heap of   
   > dust."   
   >   
   > To quote again from Quinet: "Wherever, being in authority,   
   > Catholicism meets with Liberty, it swears to destroy it, and as   
   > a matter of fact it does destroy it. In return, wherever, being   
   > in authority, Liberty meets with Catholicism, it swears to   
   > respect it.   
   >   
   >   
   > excerpt from:   
   >   
   > The Religious Revolution in France*   
   > by C. H. Spurgeon   
   > From the May 1881 Sword and Trowel   
   >   
   > http://www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/rrif.htm   
   >   
   >   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)