TRP's 20 worst sentences

[Joshua]

I have no idea what that's from, and I can find no fault in the structure.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> Here's four of the twenty:
>
> Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who remain
> all too ready to justify any government action, whether right or wrong -
> will immediately point out that this is prewar thinking, and that the moment
> enemy bombs begin to fall on one's homeland, altering the landscape and
> producing casualties among friends and neighbours, all this sort of thing,
> really, becomes irrelevant, if not indeed subversive. With the homeland in
> danger, strong leadership and effective measures become of the essence, and
> if you want to call that fascism, very well, call it whatever you please, no
> one is likely to be listening, unless it's for the air raids to be over and
> the all clear to sound. But the unseemliness of an argument - let alone a
> prophecy - in the heat of some later emergency, does not necessarily make it
> wrong. One could certainly argue that Churchill's war cabinet had behaved on
> occasion no differently from a fascist regime, censoring news, controlling
> wages and prices, restricting travel, subordinating civil liberties to
> self-defined wartime necessity.
>
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