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3-25-2008 6:48 AM
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Rasmus says:
This article, written by John Dolan, appears to me like a pathetic display of misunderstood liberal attitudes, caused by fear of being left on the shelf.
In case the US-American voters don't understand sober speech but only humiliating speech, one can write the U.S.'s democracy off as a dead loss.
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3-27-2008 3:16 AM
Johanna_G
First and foremost, liberalism is tolerating dissent. That's what we can learn from
(1) Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German politician (1871-1919):
Freiheit nur für die Anhänger der Regierung, nur für Mitglieder einer Partei - mögen sie noch so zahlreich sein - ist keine Freiheit. Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
(Rosa Luxemburg, 1920)
(2) François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire, 1694-1778), the doyen of classical liberalism:
Ne peut-on pas remonter jusqu’à ces anciens scélérat...
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