One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s
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It should actually say "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and Prophet Mohammad is the messenger of Allah".
Please make the necessary correction.
like your so called religion, your a joke rafi...the man said what he said and it should be left that way....if he wanted to say it the way you did, he would have.
i think this shows how easy it is to misinterpret fanatic rhetoric such as that spouted by the koran.
good riddens to him...he got what he gave...DEATH! and that is 100% the way it should be.
(it shouldn't have taken 8 years and countless taxpayer dollars..but thats the broken system we have...hopefully one day it will be changed to put them to death as soon as they are found guilty)
if ever comes the time, i will vote for the 'eye for an eye' law.
kill someone and you will be killed. harm someone and you will be harmed to the same extent.
the death penaly is a very good deterent. for example, if i decided i was going to be a dumb fool and commit such a hienous crime, i'd be sure it wasn't in texas. i would go to one of those faggot liberal states that doesn't believe a person that kills somebody should be killed his/herself.
again...good riddens...one less piece of oxygen thief scum out of our society....now if we can only do the same for these fanatics that kill in the name of religion.
(the biggest joke the world has ever played on humanity)
Can't you idiots quit attempting to push your beliefs on others?
If not, then I would have to insist that you KNOW that religions are for the weak minded.
What's that you say? You don't want me to push my beliefs on you? Oh, by the looks of your post, I thought you believed it is OK to push our beliefs onto others.
QUIT TRYING TO PUSH YOUR BELIEFS ONTO OTHERS! IF YOU WANT TO BE AN IDIOT, HAVE THE BALLS TO DO IT ALONE...DON'T PRESSURE OTHERS TO BE AN IDIOT WITH YOU!
Those are the actual words uttered by the death convict and I was only quoting him. I certainly cannot revise something that I did not say. Anyway, please continue your debate. I will present your points in a later post.