On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:39:50 -0800, Ken Lucke
wrote:

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.

How do you read that? As an ironic reflection that times change? And
that rhetoric shouldn't be TOO minutely analysed, once it's done its
job? Or as something else?