On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > ** > > It must be hard for poor Obama. > Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: What that end was, is not known; that it was a wicked one, has by no means > been proved. I rather think, that the distant prospect, to which he was > travelling, appeared to him grand and beautiful; but that he fixed his eye > on it with such intense eagerness as to neglect the foulness of the road. > If however his first intentions were pure, his subsequent enormities yield > us a melancholy proof, that* it is not the character of the possessor > which directs the power, but the power which shapes and depraves the > character of the possessor*. That was from back in the days when "terrorist" described the policy pursued by the regime to defend itself from foreign and domestic threats. Obama: When I came into this office, I made two commitments that are more > important than any other. > Number One, to keep the American people safe. And Number Two, to uphold the > constitution and constitutional rights to privacy and to civil liberties. That's why they call it "the Committee of Public Safety." I mean "the National Security Agency." -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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