Kerry : Tora Bora reference

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Wasn't "Tora Bora" one of the Pacific Theater battles of WWII?

You may be thinking of the island of Bora Bora, off the coast of Tahiti in the middle of the Pacific.

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Anyway it is nice to be a rich white male heterosexual professional contributing member of the ruling class patriachal elite.  Oh yes.  It feels so nice.  Before I tear down the dominant paradigm and rebuild society for the grassroots up, can I bask in the warm glow of my divine right for a minute?  Just of few glorius seconds more?  Must we rush off to some PC utopia of idealistic moralism and enlighened multiculturalism?  Whats so bad about facing up to our duty to shoulder the burdon of our birthright?  Our duty to show the wogs the way to the promised land of freedom.  The way of carefree plastic consumerism.  The way is clear.  We must educate the poor unwashed masses into a better way.

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Or maybe he is right and he really just pushed your buttons.  I don't think you are a racist, but we have to be careful how we argue the positions that we hold.  As a person born of some privlege, I feel a duty to not lobby to strongly for those with less privlege to be allowed the loss of civil liberties, detention without access to family or counsel (in some cases), selective questioning by government agents, selective investigation by local law enforcement, harrassement, and any other kind of surveillance or unwanted attention whether government sanctioned or not.  I just know that if we ask them to give up their civil liberties this time, it will be me next time.  The Bill of Rights is like a holy gospel to be revered and upheld.  No illegal detentions, and no harrassment or racial profiling.  It is a fast stride toward facism.  I am notdown with the program.  In Orange County the local police sent out post cards to Arab Americans asking them to call in for voluntary interview and some kind of registration.

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