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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Albastion
Thinking someone, or a group of people, have hubris, arrogance, or a desire to feel superior...THAT is an attack?
Nah!! Merely an observation. Not an attack if it's bloody obviously true.
so now the fact that we "are in the know" and you "havn,t got it yet" is our fault?
The NEED to feel "in the know", and therefore superior to all those that haven't "got it yet".
An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the person" or "argument against the person") is an argument which links the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of a person advocating the premise
In informal logic
In the past, the term ad hominem was sometimes used more literally, to describe an argument that was based on an individual, or to describe any personal attack. However, this is not how the meaning of the term is typically introduced in modern logic and rhetoric textbooks, and logicians and rhetoricians are in agreement that this use is incorrect.
Example:
"You claim that this man is innocent, but you cannot be trusted since you are a criminal as well."
Originally posted by weedwhacker
This does show the common tactic employed by "Truth Seekers", though. Attack the messenger, unless the messenger agrees with you.
Having pride in one's nation, and criticizing the government are two completely different things. I don't believe the "official" version of the government, but that does not mean I hate the U.S.
now how do you expect people to love this nation when it has such as bad history of hypocrisy and evil?
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring – to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that....
Q. How closely did you work with the World Bank?
JOHN PERKINS: Very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the money that’s used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.
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....With time, the pioneers learned what the American Indian had known for countless generations: the buffalo were the link to continued life.
In the years following the Civil War, financial and government interests sought to sever that relationship. The belief was that wherever the buffalo roamed, so too did the American Indian, whose very presence threatened the success of westward expansion.
By the 1870s, the U.S. Army was losing one soldier for every three Indians it killed. Railroad barons, whose interests the Army was in large part working to protect, needed to indemnify their transcontinental investments against native intrusion. Texas cattlemen, meanwhile, had already begun driving their longhorns north, looking for new forage, links to the Union Pacific, and access to eastern markets. All parties saw the buffalo, which fed and clothed the Indian, as the key obstacle to dominance.
“When we get rid of the Indians and buffalo,” enthused General Nelson Miles, commander of a garrison near Fort Keogh, Montana, in 1876, “the cattle . . . will fill this country.” Link
[when finished there were about 300 buffalo left in the USA]
On the phone, during long marches, occupying federal surplus property, in court fighting for treaty rights -- wherever Indian activists gathered during the "Red Power" years of the 1970s, conversation inevitably turned to the number of women who had had their tubes tied or their ovaries removed by the Indian Health Service.
This was, I heard one woman joke bitterly at the time, a "fringe benefit of living in a domestic, dependent nation."
reply to post by Albastion
Why don't you guys give up, or call some of your smarter friends to help you.
Originally posted by Pathos
Who said I did not believe politicians can lie, steal, or cheat? What I am asking you people is - "Where is the human logic? Why would a non imperialistic society stage such an event?"
Imperialism Definition:
1. The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.
2. The system, policies, or practices of such a government.
Imperialism Definition:
1. belief in empire-building: the policy of extending the rule or influence of a country over other countries or colonies
2. domination by empire: the political, military, or economic domination of one country over another (Does "PNAC" ring a bell?)
3. takeover and domination: the extension of power or authority over others in the interests of domination
cultural imperialism
Imperialism Definition:
1 : imperial government, authority, or system-
2 : the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas; broadly : the extension or imposition of power, authority, or influence.
'Imperialists' steal Africa's wealth, cause wars
Windhoek, Namibia
Namibian President Sam Nujoma on Monday lashed out against "imperialists" who he said either steal Africa's wealth or engineer wars to prevent the continent from benefiting from its riches.
"Nobody will bring peace to Africa if we don't do it ourselves. Africa must stop living on handouts of imperialist countries," Nujoma told the opening of a parliamentary forum in the Namibian capital.
"Africa has more riches than Europe and America together," he said at the forum of the 13-nation South African Development Community (SADC).
"The imperialists take our resources or make us fight against each other," Nujoma added.
He singled out as an example the Democratic Republic of Congo where fighting reignited over the weekend and criticised members of the forum for not speaking out against the violence there.
Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism
Stealing from the poor to pay the rich Distorted in this way, the patent process followed in the United States is a system whereby the wealthy steal resources from the poor. Instead of a seed belonging to everyone (i.e. “community property”), ownership of that seed is now granted to one entity (a corporation) which can then charge the People for using it. This sort of patenting is nothing more than a fabricated system of ownership that funnels wealth from the hands of the many to the pockets of the few.
No wonder U.S. corporations so strongly favor the U.S. patent system. It is the legal machine by which corporations can strong-arm the masses, stealing not only their present resources but also their future wealth, effectively criminalizing farmers and peasants for daring to plant the same seeds they’ve planted for generations.
It is not surprising, then, that this system of patent protection was invented by power-hungry white men. It is the greedy white men who have invaded the world, committed genocide against the American Indians, wiped out ancient civilizations in South America, enslaved Southeast Asia, drugged the Chinese with Opium, colonized India, annexed Hawaii and subjugated defenseless populations all over the world. Can you guess where it all points back to? The British Empire, of course. No single empire has done more to decimate the cultures, religions and populations of this world than the British Empire. And today, the American Empire borrows its own brand of tyranny and imperialism from the historical actions of the British Empire. (America has created the very same tyranny and cruelty it sought to escape hundreds of years ago…)
Today, these two English-speaking nations (the U.K. and America) continue to invade the world with their junk foods, pharmaceuticals, soda pop, medical systems and exploitive intellectual property laws. The pushing of patents and intellectual property law onto third world nations amounts to a kind of intellectual imperialism And every nation that embraces Western culture finds itself, usually within one generation, diseased, bankrupt and destitute. Its monies have been stolen and exchanged for endless debt to the International Monetary Fund. Its crops have been replaced with seeds patented by Monsanto. Its cultural foods have been replaced with Western processed junk foods, and its People have been feed lies and propaganda about the “superiority” of Western banking, Western medicine, Western capitalism and Western culture.
Originally posted by Barkster
somewhere in the world, a village, is missing it's Idiot!! Hey we found him he's posting on ATS that truthers are grotesque. Better come take him home before wolves devour him.
Originally posted by conar
Why all the attacks on a community who only wants a new investigation into 9/11?
Originally posted by OldDragger
But then again, I am ignorant, brainwashed, a sheeple, a disinfo agent,
and all that, being a lesser being!
[edit on 4-9-2009 by OldDragger]
Originally posted by Barkster
Originally posted by OldDragger
But then again, I am ignorant, brainwashed, a sheeple, a disinfo agent,
and all that, being a lesser being!
[edit on 4-9-2009 by OldDragger]
Well you said it not me. LWOL The truth is that if I started all the evidence for 9-11 being and inside job it would take all night and at hundreds of pages and still the shills and sheep wouldn't listen so it's easier just to laugh at you and spend time on open minded folks that can sense things aren't right in the land of OZ.
Oh, so it was the truthers who started this thread and called you guys grotesque?
Compared you to Ahmedinejad and holocaust deniers?
It was us who said you have a virus? It was us who called you arrogant?
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