People need to trust each other and their government. The idea that people in government are lying is fundamentally destructive of that trust.
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People need to trust each other and their government.
Yes they do need that. Why do you think you're going to lose the next election?
The idea that people in government are lying is fundamentally destructive of that trust.
well DUH! Did you get George's speech by mistake?
And it's disturbing that you don't have a problem with lying, moreso that people are aware of it!
And it's disturbing that you don't have a problem with lying, moreso that people are aware of it!
That seems to be a common thread with Rumsfeld's party. (See also Jim Inhofe being "more outraged by the outrage" over Abu Ghraib than he was over the outrageous things done at the prison. See also-also that it's not "class warfare" for Rumsfeld's party to support Reverse Robin Hood economics, but it is class warfare for the Party In Opposition to point that out.) Alice Miller wrote whole books explaining what's really behind that sort of thinking.
"People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people"
I, for one, am afraid of my government. Shall we move on to the second half of the quote next election?
Had to be Rumsfeld, state the obvious, and people will assume he's obfuscating, and the obvious becomes an attack on anyone who disagrees with the basis of the initial lie and and and (ppffftt) (sound of head imploding)
it is true, he just missed 3 words. Be able to, making it:
People need to be able to trust each other and their government.
And after that he has two words too much. Making it:
That people in government are lying is fundamentally destructive of that trust.
Normally, I would chortle at someone posting something this stupid on the internet, and derisively mock them.
Rumsfeld, though, is a special case: a fuckwit so publicly full of shit that he's not even worth the effort of mocking. All I have to say to him is "Fuck you!"
Machine translations are imperfect. Single-tired-person translations may be equally flawed. BushRegime-to-English translator now engaged.
Translation:
You have a fundamental need to trust me. Really, you do. You have to trust me no matter how untrustworthy I've shown myself to be. The idea that I'm a liar is harmful to you, so you must deny it, no matter how obvious it is. Really. (I actually do think you're that stupid.)
I think your translator is slightly inaccurate. It should say, "The idea that I'm a liar is harmful to me , so you must deny it, no matter how obvious it is. "
Okkayyy
So we were wrong to assume Blair was decieving us over WMDs. Wrong to accuse him of accepting loans for honours, wrong to think he couldn't maintain a goverment without sleaze, wrong to assume Prescot was aleacherous pervert who preayed on his female staff, wrong to...
Shall I go on?
Where exatctly shoudl we place our trust?
No shit, the idea of government lies destroys trust. Trouble is, it's true. I don't trust any government as far as I can throw it. (And I'll bet that he would scream "LIARS!" the instant a Democrat misspoke or lied.)
I will be saving this one for the next time I need a good laugh. It will go rather nicely in my collection.
By the way, a current headline off that link to the Mercury News... "Fairfield councilman declared brain dead after being shot in head". I don't know why they seem a little surprised by that. I'd have said the odds for brain death were pretty high, what with the shot to the head and all.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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