User:COGDEN

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[edit] My Soapbox

[edit] What I'd like to see

[edit] Bests and worsts


[edit] Favorite anti-war/anti-torture quotes

  • "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." --United Nations Convention Against Torture, Art. 2, section 2 (a treaty that the United States has ratified).
  • "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Former President James E. Carter, December 10, 2002, acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway.
  • “Why of course the people don’t want war. ... That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” -- Hermann Goering (commander of the German Air Force and president of the Reichstag), at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals in 1946.
  • "If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month."—Julian Sanchez of Reason.com
  • "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."—James Madison, writing to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798.
  • "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."—Abraham Lincoln
  • "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."—Thomas Paine

[edit] Wikipedia interests

I have been a Wikipedian since November 6, 2003. In the past, the majority of my interest has been in creating and editing articles on Religion (especially the Latter Day Saint movement); I also dabble in areas such as Critical theory, Government, Science, and Law.

[edit] Educational background

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering
  • J.D. (Law degree)

[edit] Career path

Presently, I am an intellectual property lawyer. Previously, I have been a chemical engineer. For two years, I was also a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition, I am working on a novel in my spare time.

[edit] Personal life

I have a wife and children, and am a loyal multi-generational Mormon, raised in rural Utah.

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