Politics and Culture - American Profiles In Radical Independence

"All of us around the table take this issue very seriously and we know we've got to get something done as quickly as possible."

~43rd President of the United States George W. Bush

"The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world."

~Norman Borlaug

To hammer in the points from this weeks blog and everything I have been preaching since 1997, I wanted to share with you an article I found on Foxnews.com this past week.

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

~35th President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses."

~Kenich Ohmae

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty...

~James A Garfield

As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

~Samuel Johnson, Author "Rambler"

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression...

~Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States

Campaign "08"...

The sight of broken glass ceilings, historical milestones and the birth of Radical Independence.

Not satisfied to change only American politics, Bush and his neo-con advisers, led by Dick Cheney, wanted to use American military might to spread democracy to places that had been led only by tribal councils and ruthless dictators.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

~Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton