>>>>If I burn copies of Mein Kampf for it's ideologies, am I really better than those who burn Harry Potter for being anti-christian? Personally, I don't think so.
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>>>YES, I think so. Here is Holland Mein Kampf is simply unavailable, in normal bookstores. Forbidden. Now you'll gonna tell me that this makes us Dutch people bad people??
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>>I suppose that has more than a little to do with its author and his other actions than its actual content. We must make allowances for 'local conditions' before making judgements so sweeping in nature as to make Holland "bad".
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>As far as I know, it also has to do with its content.
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>>>>I would like an ideal world as much as the next person. I think they are nice ideas, but power corrupts and I'm afraid I'm currently stuck in the real world. So, the best way I can see to make
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>>>'Power corrupts' is what has been stated here several times today. Maybe in North America, but Dutch politicians have power for some time, but they are not corrupt.
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>>But you never can tell, Peter.
>>The 'taste' of power can do strange things to even the nicest people.
>>I've told the story here before of how a new federal party here promised to stay out of legislater's ultra-generous pension plans and to forbid lobbyists from visiting their offices once they were elected. Many were elected but they do have the standard pension plan and they do have lobbyists in often!
>>In any case, most politicians here (and in the U.S. I believe) are fine people who truly want to do a good job for their constituents and the country. But some of them no doubt work hard in the background for cabinet or leadership positions. What do you think motivates them?... that they honestly believe they can do a better job or that they want to climb the rungs of power. I'm sure mostly it's the quest for power.
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>>>>If Pat Roberston gains traction, it's because others have not done their duty in countering him. As Edmund Burke said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
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>>>An important thing that 'good men' must do, is (ask to) apply the rules that must prevent abuse of the freedom of speech.
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>>Why "apply the rules"??? Why not just EXPOSE for what it is??????? Surely you can see that is more effective than giving such people an official platform (the legal system) in a draggged out process to repeat their stupid words.
>>Yes, 'good men' MUST expose crap. That is the only "rule" needed here.
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>I don't understand the meaning of 'exposed' here. Sorry.

To make public. Not to hide the truth.