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How warmongers screw themselves
Sep. 7th, 2006 10:58 pmWilliam Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
From A Man for All Seasons
This post brought to you by staying up too late reading about foaming war-drum beaters who want others to sacrifice for their principles, that docudrama, and a amusing example of Muslim in-fighting about Ibn Abdul Wahab, which I got when I tried to remember how to spell a word.
[1] Because really, the dark dystopian theocracy in America is most likely to be Christian. They have a head start on the buttons to push. Hypothetical Muslim aspiring theocrats have more of an, let's just say, image problem. Also, no Murikan will learn a funny furriner language with inflections and a whole new alphabet.
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
From A Man for All Seasons
Don't these ninnies willing to sell out the Constitution to be protected against the 'OMG ISLAMOFASCISTS!1!!!11' realize that all they advocate could be used against them in a hypothetical Islamic Republic of America[1]?
( Or, You Can't Have a Little Oppression Any More Than You Can Have a Little Strychnine )
This post brought to you by staying up too late reading about foaming war-drum beaters who want others to sacrifice for their principles, that docudrama, and a amusing example of Muslim in-fighting about Ibn Abdul Wahab, which I got when I tried to remember how to spell a word.
[1] Because really, the dark dystopian theocracy in America is most likely to be Christian. They have a head start on the buttons to push. Hypothetical Muslim aspiring theocrats have more of an, let's just say, image problem. Also, no Murikan will learn a funny furriner language with inflections and a whole new alphabet.
