# Sen. Grassley to AIG Execs: Resign or Kill Yourselves

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 17, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-grassley-to-aig-execs-resign-or-kill-yourselves/489746 "2009-03-17T13:59:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sen-grassley-to-aig-execs-resign-or-kill-yourselves/489746/65 "2009-03-19T06:25:04Z")

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> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> The America I know has a little something called “freedom of speech” and a right to “petition the government for a dress of grievances” right in in the bloody first amendment of the government’s defining documents.

What is a “dress of grievances”? Is is like a wedding dress but to be worn on the day of one’s divorce?

> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#):
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> For someone who thinks so little of that government I’m surprised you still live here under it. I don’t see any border exits stopping you from leaving.

Now, this is really stupid and childish. It is his country as much as anybody else’s and he has the right to be critical and to try to change it for what he thinks is the better.

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