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Old 02-16-2012, 09:31 AM   #39
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[QUOTE=detbuch;921144]Numbers 7. and 8. were a later time period than justplugit's 40's, 50's, and early 60's, and the war on drugs is still on. The draft was fulfilling individual duty to protect freedom, not an imposition on freedom. Segregation in jusplugit's time period was mostly a cultural rather than a governmental issue and where it was governmental it was State rather than Federal. The elimination at State level was good, but cultural segregation still exists and may take some time to disappear, if ever. Censorship that existed was, again a local issue and dependent, again, on cultural views. No culture is free of some form of censorship. That is one of the defining views of culture--it censors that which is counter to or threatens itself. There is less banning of books today, but there are still cultural taboos, e.g.--political correctness. McCarthyism may have been an overreaction to the Communist threat, that is still debated wheather it was or not, but it was mostly a threat to a few Communists and fellow travelers not to average Americans. It was open, blatant, opposed, and temporary. Today there are subtler and more lasting threats to individual liberties that effect us all. And the testing of biological weapons was one of those abberations, more horrible than most, that occur in every generation, not some, again, threat to the liberty of average Americans.

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Now,there is a man, Debuch,who knows the truth of history at the time!

I get a kick out of some of the younger generation who thinks that the older generation didn't know what was goin on when they were younger.Don't insult our experience, intelligence or
common sense.

Trust me we did. In my house the radio was turned on to the news
every night, the news and politics were discussed at the supper
table where the whole family ate together.
Every Sunday we would have dinner with aunts ,uncles and cousins where the news
and politics where the main topic and discussed well after dinner was over.

Neighborhood gatherings would always include talk of the news and politics.
We were well informed with newspapers, Time and Newsweek, pretty un-biased
magazines at the time.

When you read your history books, be sure you know the author, the time they
lived,and their agenda. There are a lot of pseudo-intellectuals and libertine
thinkers out there that would love to change the truth of history for their
own agendas.

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