Liebe! (Love)

Sklaventanz der Emotionen, (Slave dance of emotions)
Liebe Hass im Wechselspiel (Love, Hate, interchange)
Sei bereit, wenn sie dich holen... (Be prepared, when they get you)
Tanz mit deinem Gefühl (dance with your feeling/dance susceptably)

Meine Liebe, Meine Lust, Meine Gier (my love, my lust, my avarice)
Meine Angst, Meine Sucht (my fear, my addiction)
Mein Herz sehnt sich nach dir (my heart desires you)

Meine Sehnsucht, Meine Qual, Mein Verlangen (my want, my pain, my desire)
Meine Seele, Mein Geist (my soul, my ghost)
Beherrscht durch mein Gefühl (guided by my feelings)

So schön, so kühl (so beautiful, so cool)

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Colin Powell said it: "You break it, you buy it". I think we're obligated now. And it's going to hurt for a long, long time. A lot of men and women are going to die because of it.

If I were a young Iraqi with a testosterone imbalance living in a repressive culture invaded by a foreign army, I'd probably be up on the rooftops with a Dragunov. You take someone's country over and they'll never ever forget it.

The arrogance and ignorance of the Neocons for putting our professional, completely voluntary forces in harms way to satisfy their avarice make me realize that I need Bob Dylan to explain how I feel...

"...You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
Then you hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud...

...And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead."

You don't seem to understand what it means to maintain a website, the webmaster, i.e. individual who has the website maintains it. You don't seem to have a technical understanding of this issue.

People already do pay for internet access, the proposed charge here is to also charge on the other side, not only charge for connecting into the network but also a charge for being part of the network that is connected into. Yes there is some cost associated with running a server, basically the cost of running a computer, in theory and PC connected to the internet can be used as server, this cost is very low, hence how our present system is able to work and these corporations still make money.

The affront to democracy comes in squashing the voice of the poor and oppressed peoples in the world. The internet has provided a way for people to connect and organize and better monitor their democracy and have their voices heard, a means of escape from the filter of the corporate owned, overly commercialized propaganda system that has labeled itself 'the liberal media', pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, the billionaires who own it, its liberal, it says so. The affront to democracy is that this is a means by which those same forces seek to impose a similar filter and system of control onto the internet.

I'm sure theres some surface level of avarice, but really the issue runs deeper, sure it'll bring in some revenue, but nothing compared to the profits brought in year after year to those who manipulate the world by claiming legal ownership of it, who can only continue to do so, in so far as they are able to keep the people from uniting in one voice and proclaiming that the time has indeed come for the meek to inherit the earth.

And on another note, I'm sorry for your fear of terrorists, and I agree terrorism is to be despised, but all terrorism should be despised, and as it stands western governments through use of their militaries have killed far more people in the middle east, so objectively speaking you might want to broaden your definition of terrorism to a more objective one. I know you probably think something like but we're us and they're them, but if you think if they kill one of us we should be able to kill 2 of them, or 20 as is often the case, well put yourself in the shoes of them and follow this pattern for a while. Now reflect for a while upon the statement "But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

Thank you for your time.

In reply to your comment:
“WTF?!? Maybe Mr. Rollins, the noted constitutional scholar that he is, can explain to me how charging some one to maintain their website is an affront to democracy. Interestingly, this very same Mr. Rollins, who is so interested in our constitutional liberties, has done a number of anti-gun advertisements.

Joe is correct in just about everything that he says, culminating in -" There is a much greater malaise upon our nation, of which recent developments are only a symptom."-

Joe, you are absolutely right, however, you may not agree with why I think you are right. I think the malaise is in who we focus our attention on. Mr. Rollins likes to criticize rightwing Christians, not because the are the real problem, but because he personally dislikes them and they are easy targets. He is not likely to be shot by any of them. Just ask Andres Serrano.

However, if you are truly worried about you civil liberties you should keep your eyes elsewere, Maybe the GWOT that Mr. Rollins so casually mocks.
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