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One Hundred Million Victims
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The Utopian Nightmare
One hundred million people: that's how many died under the oppression of
Communism.
Those victims have too often been ignored by much of the Western
press-especially by members of the media who were sympathetic with the
Communist ideology. But on Tuesday, the victims were remembered-and a
Washington park was dedicated to their memory.
It's called the Victims of Communism Memorial Park. Rising above the park
grounds is the statue of a woman, her arms lifting a torch aloft. It's a
replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue carried by anti-Communist
demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 18 years ago.
The statue and park are monuments to more than just a failed and fading
ideology.
Conservative scholar Lee Edwards, who, along with former Ambassador Lev
Dobriansky, came up with the idea for the memorial, says its purpose is
not only to create the world's first memorial to all of Communism's
victims, but also to honor those who resisted communism-sometimes at the
cost of their lives. These include people like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa,
Pope John Paul II, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Ronald Reagan.
As I write in my new book, God and Government, Christians and Jews were
particular targets of atheistic communist regimes. They were hated because
they owed allegiance to the one power greater than the totalitarian
Communist state.
Christianity and communism have always clashed because they are
irreconcilable in their basic premises. Each, in one sense, is a religion
and each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.
Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism functioned
as a religion in the lives of the faithful. It offered a comprehensive
explanation of reality and claimed to put adherents in touch with higher
powers-namely, the inexorable laws of history.
Its eschatology is millennial. At the end of the class struggle against
capitalism lies the classless society where exploiters are banished, the
state withers away, and man's natural goodness flows forth. The laws of
history will bring justice to the oppressed and wipe away every tear.
Communist leaders recognized then, and do today in Cuba, China and
elsewhere, that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force
that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. So
they attacked Christianity as the enemy that it was-and still is-to
communism.
Even today, not everyone recognizes communism as an evil system. That's
why, as President Bush noted at Monday's memorial, "We have an obligation
to future generations to record the crimes of the twentieth century and
ensure that they're never repeated . . . Evil is real and must be
confronted . . .Given the chance, men commanded by harsh and hateful
ideologies will commit unspeakable crimes and take the lives of millions."
Indeed, communist oppression of Christians goes on in North Korea, China,
Cuba, and elsewhere. And we are witnessing the rise of Islamo-fascist
repression around the world, just as evil as communism.
You and I need to be praying both for those who still suffer under
communism and for those who languish under Islam. They are false gods, as
I argue in my book.
Communism's 100 million victims are a tragic reminder that we must stand
up to tyranny in all its forms and we must never retreat.
By Chuck Colson
6/21/2007
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For Further Reading and Information
Visit the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation website.
Chuck Colson, God and Government (formerly Kingdoms in Conflict).
Phillip Kennicot, "The Meaning of a Marker for 100 Million Victims," The
Washington Post, 12 June 2007.
Lee Edwards, "The Making of a Memorial," HumanEvents.com, 11 June 2007.
Jim Snyder, "Labor of Love Yields Results," The Hill, 12 June 2007.
"New Statue Honors Victims of Communism," The Patriot-News, 12 June 2007.
Robert B. Bluey, "Victims of Communism Get Their Memorial,"
HumanEvents.com, 27 September 2006.
Ann Morse, "One Hundred Million and Still Counting." The Point, 12 June
2007.
Charles Colson, "Defenders of the Church: A Conversation with A. M.
Rosenthal and Kristin Wright," Breakpoint Online, 9 January 2007.
Carolyn Bolls, "The Trail of Tyranny: Where Terrorism and Persecution
Intersect," Breakpoint Online, 1 August 2006.
Breakpoint Commentary No. 050503, "A Modern Auschwitz: North Korea's Camp
22."
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"St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> wrote in message
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One Hundred Million Victims
One hundred million people: that's how many died under the oppression of
Communism.
Those victims have too often been ignored by much of the Western
press-especially by members of the media who were sympathetic with the
Communist ideology. But on Tuesday, the victims were remembered-and a
Washington park was dedicated to their memory.
It's called the Victims of Communism Memorial Park.
Great. Now can we please have a Victims of Ronald Reagan's Right-Wing Death
Squads in Central America Memorial Park too...? Seems only fair...
L.
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In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
Don
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In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
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One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
The intelligent ones:
Atheism Kills with a Demonic Fury
http://atheiststooges.wordpress.com/tag/atheism-kills-with-a-demonic-fury/
also:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_k85DLLhZWsw/RiBHJX62_vI/AAAAAAAAAA8/YlNeOPsR8oA/s1600-h/Atheism+Kills.gif
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21 Jun 2007 10:41:55 PM |
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In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
The intelligent ones:
Atheism Kills with a Demonic Fury
http://atheiststooges.wordpress.com/tag/atheism-kills-with-a-demonic-fury/
also:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_k85DLLhZWsw/RiBHJX62_vI/AAAAAAAAAA8/YlNeOPsR8oA/s1600-h/Atheism+Kills.gif
"Don Kresch" <ROT13.qxerfpu@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote in message news:i7gm73t79j0v1qta0sl1dnvuqj23lhi4sq@4ax.com...
In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
The survivors!
Repeated article:
One Hundred Million Victims
Related Audio/Video Downloads
http://breakpoint.org/media/dkContent/6650/062107_BP.mp3
The Utopian Nightmare
One hundred million people: that's how many died under the oppression of
Communism.
Those victims have too often been ignored by much of the Western
press-especially by members of the media who were sympathetic with the
Communist ideology. But on Tuesday, the victims were remembered-and a
Washington park was dedicated to their memory.
It's called the Victims of Communism Memorial Park. Rising above the park
grounds is the statue of a woman, her arms lifting a torch aloft. It's a
replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue carried by anti-Communist
demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 18 years ago.
The statue and park are monuments to more than just a failed and fading
ideology.
Conservative scholar Lee Edwards, who, along with former Ambassador Lev
Dobriansky, came up with the idea for the memorial, says its purpose is
not only to create the world's first memorial to all of Communism's
victims, but also to honor those who resisted communism-sometimes at the
cost of their lives. These include people like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa,
Pope John Paul II, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Ronald Reagan.
As I write in my new book, God and Government, Christians and Jews were
particular targets of atheistic communist regimes. They were hated because
they owed allegiance to the one power greater than the totalitarian
Communist state.
Christianity and communism have always clashed because they are
irreconcilable in their basic premises. Each, in one sense, is a religion
and each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.
Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism functioned
as a religion in the lives of the faithful. It offered a comprehensive
explanation of reality and claimed to put adherents in touch with higher
powers-namely, the inexorable laws of history.
Its eschatology is millennial. At the end of the class struggle against
capitalism lies the classless society where exploiters are banished, the
state withers away, and man's natural goodness flows forth. The laws of
history will bring justice to the oppressed and wipe away every tear.
Communist leaders recognized then, and do today in Cuba, China and
elsewhere, that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force
that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. So
they attacked Christianity as the enemy that it was-and still is-to
communism.
Even today, not everyone recognizes communism as an evil system. That's
why, as President Bush noted at Monday's memorial, "We have an obligation
to future generations to record the crimes of the twentieth century and
ensure that they're never repeated . . . Evil is real and must be
confronted . . .Given the chance, men commanded by harsh and hateful
ideologies will commit unspeakable crimes and take the lives of millions."
Indeed, communist oppression of Christians goes on in North Korea, China,
Cuba, and elsewhere. And we are witnessing the rise of Islamo-fascist
repression around the world, just as evil as communism.
You and I need to be praying both for those who still suffer under
communism and for those who languish under Islam. They are false gods, as
I argue in my book.
Communism's 100 million victims are a tragic reminder that we must stand
up to tyranny in all its forms and we must never retreat.
By Chuck Colson
6/21/2007
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
For Further Reading and Information
Visit the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation website.
Chuck Colson, God and Government (formerly Kingdoms in Conflict).
Phillip Kennicot, "The Meaning of a Marker for 100 Million Victims," The
Washington Post, 12 June 2007.
Lee Edwards, "The Making of a Memorial," HumanEvents.com, 11 June 2007.
Jim Snyder, "Labor of Love Yields Results," The Hill, 12 June 2007.
"New Statue Honors Victims of Communism," The Patriot-News, 12 June 2007.
Robert B. Bluey, "Victims of Communism Get Their Memorial,"
HumanEvents.com, 27 September 2006.
Ann Morse, "One Hundred Million and Still Counting." The Point, 12 June
2007.
Charles Colson, "Defenders of the Church: A Conversation with A. M.
Rosenthal and Kristin Wright," Breakpoint Online, 9 January 2007.
Carolyn Bolls, "The Trail of Tyranny: Where Terrorism and Persecution
Intersect," Breakpoint Online, 1 August 2006.
Breakpoint Commentary No. 050503, "A Modern Auschwitz: North Korea's Camp
22."
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"Don Kresch" <ROT13.qxerfpu@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote in message news:i7gm73t79j0v1qta0sl1dnvuqj23lhi4sq@4ax.com...
In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
The survivors!
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:28:14 -0400, Somebody Who Loves You wrote:
"Don Kresch" <ROT13.qxerfpu@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote in message
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In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that atheism
and communism are the same thing?
The survivors!
Oh you never went through anything serious in your life.
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards,
witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling
from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical,
absurd and primitive stories, and you say that *we* are the
ones that need help?" - Jon Stoll
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22 Jun 2007 07:07:31 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:28:14 -0400, Somebody Who Loves You wrote:
"Don Kresch" <ROT13.qxerfpu@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote in message
news:i7gm73t79j0v1qta0sl1dnvuqj23lhi4sq@4ax.com...
In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that atheism
and communism are the same thing?
The survivors!
Oh you never went through anything serious in your life.
--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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No but the survivors of communist atheism have. They speak for the
100,000,000 dead.
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On Jun 21, 11:25 pm, Don Kresch <ROT13.qxer...@jv.ee.pbz.com> wrote:
In alt.atheism On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack
NopetheDopeofapes" <stjnd_...@NOTSOhotmail.com> let us all know that:
One Hundred Million Victims
What sort of retarded trolling spamming fucktard thinks that
atheism and communism are the same thing?
Don
Any one that feels like being dishonest. Christianity was communistic
at first...therefore we have an existant example that the theory
communist = atheism is wrong.
Hatter
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes"
<stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> wrote:
Christianity and communism have always clashed because they are
irreconcilable in their basic premises.
The early Christians would have been surprised at such a statement...
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes"
<stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> wrote:
One Hundred Million Victims
Related Audio/Video Downloads
http://breakpoint.org/media/dkContent/6650/062107_BP.mp3
The Utopian Nightmare
One hundred million people: that's how many died under the oppression of
Communism.
Those victims have too often been ignored by much of the Western
press-especially by members of the media who were sympathetic with the
Communist ideology. But on Tuesday, the victims were remembered-and a
Washington park was dedicated to their memory.
It's called the Victims of Communism Memorial Park. Rising above the park
grounds is the statue of a woman, her arms lifting a torch aloft. It's a
replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue carried by anti-Communist
demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 18 years ago.
The statue and park are monuments to more than just a failed and fading
ideology.
Conservative scholar Lee Edwards, who, along with former Ambassador Lev
Dobriansky, came up with the idea for the memorial, says its purpose is
not only to create the world's first memorial to all of Communism's
victims, but also to honor those who resisted communism-sometimes at the
cost of their lives. These include people like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa,
Pope John Paul II, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Ronald Reagan.
As I write in my new book, God and Government, Christians and Jews were
particular targets of atheistic communist regimes. They were hated because
they owed allegiance to the one power greater than the totalitarian
Communist state.
Christianity and communism have always clashed because they are
irreconcilable in their basic premises. Each, in one sense, is a religion
and each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.
Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism functioned
as a religion in the lives of the faithful. It offered a comprehensive
explanation of reality and claimed to put adherents in touch with higher
powers-namely, the inexorable laws of history.
Its eschatology is millennial. At the end of the class struggle against
capitalism lies the classless society where exploiters are banished, the
state withers away, and man's natural goodness flows forth. The laws of
history will bring justice to the oppressed and wipe away every tear.
Communist leaders recognized then, and do today in Cuba, China and
elsewhere, that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force
that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. So
they attacked Christianity as the enemy that it was-and still is-to
communism.
Even today, not everyone recognizes communism as an evil system. That's
why, as President Bush noted at Monday's memorial, "We have an obligation
to future generations to record the crimes of the twentieth century and
ensure that they're never repeated . . . Evil is real and must be
confronted . . .Given the chance, men commanded by harsh and hateful
ideologies will commit unspeakable crimes and take the lives of millions."
Indeed, communist oppression of Christians goes on in North Korea, China,
Cuba, and elsewhere. And we are witnessing the rise of Islamo-fascist
repression around the world, just as evil as communism.
You and I need to be praying both for those who still suffer under
communism and for those who languish under Islam. They are false gods, as
I argue in my book.
Communism's 100 million victims are a tragic reminder that we must stand
up to tyranny in all its forms and we must never retreat.
By Chuck Colson
6/21/2007
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think you have confused communism with ruthless dictatorships. Countries
tend to murder people when they are run by the latter. Nazi Germany certainly
was not communist and they were not anti-Christian either.
Ever hear of Christian Communism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism
Ben
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, "St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes"
<stjnd_021@NOTSOhotmail.com> wrote:
One Hundred Million Victims
Related Audio/Video Downloads
http://breakpoint.org/media/dkContent/6650/062107_BP.mp3
The Utopian Nightmare
One hundred million people: that's how many died under the oppression of
Communism.
Those victims have too often been ignored by much of the Western
press-especially by members of the media who were sympathetic with the
Communist ideology. But on Tuesday, the victims were remembered-and a
Washington park was dedicated to their memory.
It's called the Victims of Communism Memorial Park. Rising above the park
grounds is the statue of a woman, her arms lifting a torch aloft. It's a
replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue carried by anti-Communist
demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 18 years ago.
The statue and park are monuments to more than just a failed and fading
ideology.
Conservative scholar Lee Edwards, who, along with former Ambassador Lev
Dobriansky, came up with the idea for the memorial, says its purpose is
not only to create the world's first memorial to all of Communism's
victims, but also to honor those who resisted communism-sometimes at the
cost of their lives. These include people like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa,
Pope John Paul II, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Ronald Reagan.
As I write in my new book, God and Government, Christians and Jews were
particular targets of atheistic communist regimes. They were hated because
they owed allegiance to the one power greater than the totalitarian
Communist state.
Christianity and communism have always clashed because they are
irreconcilable in their basic premises. Each, in one sense, is a religion
and each is inherently expansive and evangelistic.
Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism functioned
as a religion in the lives of the faithful. It offered a comprehensive
explanation of reality and claimed to put adherents in touch with higher
powers-namely, the inexorable laws of history.
Its eschatology is millennial. At the end of the class struggle against
capitalism lies the classless society where exploiters are banished, the
state withers away, and man's natural goodness flows forth. The laws of
history will bring justice to the oppressed and wipe away every tear.
Communist leaders recognized then, and do today in Cuba, China and
elsewhere, that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force
that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. So
they attacked Christianity as the enemy that it was-and still is-to
communism.
Even today, not everyone recognizes communism as an evil system. That's
why, as President Bush noted at Monday's memorial, "We have an obligation
to future generations to record the crimes of the twentieth century and
ensure that they're never repeated . . . Evil is real and must be
confronted . . .Given the chance, men commanded by harsh and hateful
ideologies will commit unspeakable crimes and take the lives of millions."
Indeed, communist oppression of Christians goes on in North Korea, China,
Cuba, and elsewhere. And we are witnessing the rise of Islamo-fascist
repression around the world, just as evil as communism.
You and I need to be praying both for those who still suffer under
communism and for those who languish under Islam. They are false gods, as
I argue in my book.
Communism's 100 million victims are a tragic reminder that we must stand
up to tyranny in all its forms and we must never retreat.
By Chuck Colson
6/21/2007
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I think you have confused communism with ruthless dictatorships. Countries
tend to murder people when they are run by the latter. Nazi Germany certainly
was not communist and they were not anti-Christian either.
Ever hear of Christian Communism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism
.. The Total Collapse (Death) Of Atheism
http://76.162.173.93/uit/coa/
.. Marx/Lennon (Liberal Socialism)
http://76.162.173.93/uit/mls/
.. Cosmic Humanist Worldview
http://76.162.173.93/uit/chw/chw.wmv
.. Secular Humanist Worldview
http://76.162.173.93/uit/shw/shw.wmv
.. Biblical Christian Worldview
http://76.162.173.93/uit/bcw/bcw.wmv
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes wrote:
By Chuck Colson
Well, at least we know whose copyright you're violating.
(Not that you'd care about the law or anything)
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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like Shakespeare!" - Blair Houghton
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21 Jun 2007 10:51:06 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes wrote:
By Chuck Colson
Well, at least we know whose copyright you're violating.
(Not that you'd care about the law or anything)
Hey, neither does Chuck Colson, remember...
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Merlyn LeRoy
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22 Jun 2007 10:35:40 AM |
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:51:06 +0000, Brian Westley wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> writes:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:57:56 -0400, St. Jack NopetheDopeofapes wrote:
By Chuck Colson
Well, at least we know whose copyright you're violating.
(Not that you'd care about the law or anything)
Hey, neither does Chuck Colson, remember...
Ah but remember the great principle of the religious reich:
It's only illegal if *you do it...
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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