Comments on: Respect only when it’s due http://grabapple.net/entry/327 No moneyman can win her love. Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Comrade O'Brien http://grabapple.net/entry/327/comment-page-1#comment-10141 Comrade O'Brien Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:26:43 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/327#comment-10141 <p>Attention Comrade! Please visit http://ministryoflove.wordpress.com to learn more about our creative protest of the Military Commissions Act. Regards, O'Brien</p> Attention Comrade!
Please visit http://ministryoflove.wordpress.com to learn more about our creative protest of the Military Commissions Act.
Regards,
O’Brien

]]> By: thematthewshow http://grabapple.net/entry/327/comment-page-1#comment-10131 thematthewshow Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:09:04 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/327#comment-10131 <p>Hear, hear! To quote Mr. Jefferson:</p> <p>"[When] corruption.. has prevailed in those offices [of]... government and [has] so familiarized itself as that men otherwise honest could look on it without horror,... [then we must] be alive to the suppression of this odious practice and... bring to punishment and brand with eternal disgrace every man guilty of it, whatever be his station."</p> <p>This is nice, too:</p> <p>"I have never dreamed that all opposition was to cease. The clergy, who have missed their union with the State, the Anglomen, who have missed their union with England, and the political adventurers, who have lost the chance of swindling and plunder in the waste of public money, will never cease to bawl on the breaking up of their sanctuary."</p> <p>Well, one out of three ain't bad...</p> Hear, hear! To quote Mr. Jefferson:

“[When] corruption.. has prevailed in those offices [of]… government and [has] so familiarized itself as that men otherwise honest could look on it without horror,… [then we must] be alive to the suppression of this odious practice and… bring to punishment and brand with eternal disgrace every man guilty of it, whatever be his station.”

This is nice, too:

“I have never dreamed that all opposition was to cease. The clergy, who have missed their union with the State, the Anglomen, who have missed their union with England, and the political adventurers, who have lost the chance of swindling and plunder in the waste of public money, will never cease to bawl on the breaking up of their sanctuary.”

Well, one out of three ain’t bad…

]]> By: Dean http://grabapple.net/entry/327/comment-page-1#comment-10114 Dean Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:48:54 +0000 http://grabapple.net/entry/327#comment-10114 <p>Interesting. I find nothing compelling about the argument to "respect the office" when the person in the office is less than respectable. In fact, I usually find it a parallel argument to respecting authoritative government figures because they are, in fact, our rulers. And that is what scares me about GWB. He doesn't see himself as a servant--as the man to whom we little people have delegated some of <em>our powers</em> so that he can effectively execute the law; he sees himself as our supreme ruler; we, thus, are his subjects. That is enough for me to have no respect for the man.</p> Interesting. I find nothing compelling about the argument to “respect the office” when the person in the office is less than respectable. In fact, I usually find it a parallel argument to respecting authoritative government figures because they are, in fact, our rulers. And that is what scares me about GWB. He doesn’t see himself as a servant–as the man to whom we little people have delegated some of our powers so that he can effectively execute the law; he sees himself as our supreme ruler; we, thus, are his subjects. That is enough for me to have no respect for the man.

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