Consent of the Governed

Authored by Michael Pate on July 1st, 2003 at 9:54 PM

My posts on the student protests in Tehran have attracted a whole bunch of hits from Republican discussion groups like this. I can see they’re excited to see unrest in a member of the “Axis of Evil”. Too bad they can’t read Farsi though. Otherwise they wouldn’t need the likes of me to tell them that no matter what the dispute is inside Iran, the vast majority don’t like George W. and they certainly don’t like the pathetic pawns that America supports and funds, like Reza Pahlavi (son of the late Shah) and the terrorist MKO. I guess it’s more pleasurable to be naive though… keep happy. - Alireza

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

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I studied physics, not political 'science', and I'm here to tell you that "hijackers" were neither necessary (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/757family/200back/back4.html) nor sufficient (http://www.justiceforwoody.org/re911/papers/volumev3.html) to account for the massive damage to the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.

see/hear http://users.adelphia.net/~earthwatch/