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vienna · 10-19-11, 01:12 PM

Way back in my grade school, a nun asked the class, "When is a revolution legal?" None of us ventured an answer. She then said "It is legal if you win." I believed that answer then and I do now. History is written by the victors; we won, we were right, and, our revolution was legal...

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,712 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Way back in my grade school, a nun asked the class, "When is a revolution legal?" None of us ventured an answer. She then said "It is legal if you win." I believed that answer then and I do now. History is written by the victors; we won, we were right, and, our revolution was legal...