IMPRISONING CHILDREN has to End, Period.

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Friday June 29, 2012 · 9:36 AM PDT

2012/06/29 · 09:36

Only once in a blue moon do I get pushed over the edge enough on some issue to bother doing a diary or make any comments.
Well, this sent me over the edge.

http://www.independent.co.uk/...

UK ready to take on Israel over fate of children clapped in irons
Report funded by Foreign Office details claims of routine abuse for Palestinian youths

And whoever reads this don't even start with the yada,yada,yada about how other countries are just as bad or the US is just as bad----WE KNOW THAT ALREADY.

The POINT IS--- Israel is the one country where the US could shut this kind of abuse of underage children down in heartbeat by simply whispering in the Israeli ear...."Keep it up assholes and kiss your 30 billion US taxpayer dollars and UN vetoes good by".

renfro

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 11:02 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 11:02

Isn't that what many of you are always asking the Democrats?

Isn't that what Obama is always asking the Republicans?

"If you leave me, can I go with you"?

Can I tag along because I have no where else to go? Because I have no other choice.
No one else to turn to. Because the alternative is even worse.

Well, you've been left. The country has been left.

renfro

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Saturday July 04, 2009 · 4:41 PM PDT

2009/07/04 · 16:41

It is reported that when Ben Franklin was asked after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, if America was a republic or a monarchy he replied, "A republic...If you can keep it."

Evidently there was some doubt as to whether a government who derived it's powers from "We, the People" would actually survive.

Republic, Democracy...I won't quibble over words or descriptions. I will leave that waste of time to those who miss the point or want to convolute our founders words for some other agenda.

This isn't much of a diary, more like a reminder I guess to any others like me who might be ruminating today on exactly where the Union is in this 21st century. When I look at our government today it sometimes resembles a shopping bazzare where anyone with 30 pieces of silver can buy themselves a piece instead of a government of "We The People."

renfro

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Saturday June 13, 2009 · 8:43 PM PDT

2009/06/13 · 20:43

And it immediately fell to earth.

As this diary may do because I've never done one and totally scared to hit that review button and find I have created a mess. But he who hesitates is lost. So here we go.

Netanyahu's conditions for Palestine and peace talks, to be laid out in his
speech tomorrow, were published in a diary here a day ago but with a
different view point.

I thought I would try to offer what I think is a realistic and objective look at where the US and Israel are to give us a better understanding of what it's going to take to get a resolution.
And especially as events taking place in Iran now will be keeping the "to do or not to do Iran" debate going in Israel and among US hawks and others.

So onward.

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