A day that lives in infamy

[Ian Livingston]

Yep, that's the official line. Some of us think it might have inspired us
to positive action--seeing the Crook in the box--to taking part in a
responsive government. You may thank God for Gerald Ford's having saved us
from a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but I
damn him and all his kind to the eternal hells.



On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> IL> September 8, 1974, which I count as the day the government officially
> announced its status as an agency independent of the will of the people,
> and the beginning of all that happened after.****
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> It was *for our own good*, Ian.  We stole a continent, we broke from an
> empire, we fought a civil war and two world wars, we’d had four presidents
> assassinated -- but the spectacle of a former president in the dock,
> accountable to the law and to his fellow citizens, would have shattered us
> to quivering bits. God bless Gerald Ford for saving us from that horror.**
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