It seems that we need more Obama’s as world leaders. Unlike some who are very hot headed, that guy needs no cholesterol treatments for he is very healthy. Israel’s leaders blundered politically by sending a poor tactician to handle the flotilla of ships trying to slip through the Gaza blockade. There needed to be no death on the part of the activists. The Israelis should have made a good risks assessment and decided to simply disable the ships. Instead, they sent a boarding party on a heavily populated ship and what happened was a disaster.
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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