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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
Lots of speeches are blinkered and one-sided and reflect your own opinions. You could argue that Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was the same. Powell's was given precisely to open up the debate on immigration in the late 60s that no-one wanted to tackle. Powell was neither racist nor near to being clinically insane.
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Yes, but few are as extreme, or as demanding of action. He even leads into it by going on about preventable evils, for feck sake. The idea of someone with such extremist views being in a position of power in this country is hugely discomforting to me.
I don't know nearly enough about the bloke to comment seriously on him as a character, but after coming out with that speech, he had to go. Anything else would have set an extremely dangerous example.
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Originally Posted by iguanamanc
How can a face be evil?
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