From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 18:13:23 MST
Cory writes
> I've never read in a history book of an invaded
> land...and I mean close enough proximity to see,
> where people were holding a peace protest and
> not scrambling for their lives. Am I wrong?
Yes. Athens in the Peloponnesian War:
While Spartan forces were marauding the countryside
around Athens, the asshole Socrates and others were
saying everything pro-Sparta that they could think
of. A certain playwright was advocating peace and
disarmament in his theatrical productions.
The worst crime of it was that a number of people
were listening to Socrates, and applauding those
productions, and this at a time when Spartan
tyranny was well-known. So next time some loony
leftist seems to be going beyond all reason, just
remember that so did "the wisest of them all".
Alas, some people's emotions, healthy prejudices,
and natural human common sense are simply broken.
Lee
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