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One thing is certain. If the GOP ever gets the power it wants it will use the US military against protest in the US. That is why they ended Posse Comitatis. There was no reason to end that law whatsoever. The OWS crackdowns are just a shadow of what the GOP has in store for the country. The RW is behind these crackdowns and Democratic politicians are too weak to resist them. The flag the the GOP honors has an iron fist on it.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)I been saying this to people for some time on fb. NDAA ensures that when the troops are brought back, they will be used against OWS and anyone else who protests. Will the troops be on the 99% side or the 1%? I think we already know the answer, look at what the police departments are already doing. What the was Carl Levin thinking of? Get ready folks, cause the whip is going to come down and everyone can cower and say, "Yessir, can I have another?" "Did ya see the Kardashians? How 'bout them Giants?" Stay glued to your TV. Sarcasm thingee here.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)There are too many red flags to ignore. BTW how is your brother. We talked years ago on email. a_gar_funkel.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)but then, it had to have been years ago. My bro passed Sept. 29, 2004. Then, the love of my life also passed April 15, 2006. Both of cancer. My email is the same but at peoplepc.com.
We are indeed living in dangerous times. Just because one is paranoid doesn't mean they are NOT out to get us. I hear too many on the right wing in my own neighborhood who talk of target practice with libruls. I told some of them, come on down, my 30-30 is ready and waiting and I have boxes of shells. Who wants to go out first? This is one liberal who will not cringe.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)If I have it right I played golf with your brother at an NJCAA golf tournament in summer of 1964. We played for the Jr College on 5th Ave. He was our "A" player. I am from Springfield, Illinois originally. Your family belonged to the local country club there called Illini CC. We all went to the same Catholic high school. You were ahead of me by a couple of years. Your brother would have graduated in 1962 or there about like I did.
Sorry for your loss.
We talked before Bush won in 2004. It has been at least four years since I got your last email. You most likely picked my email up on the AARP site.
In response to your post, I hear a lot of elimanitionist rhetoric. I know what I am hearing. The GOP is a violent party. I fully understand their code and unspoken agenda. They are more dangerous than the terrorists as far as I am concerned. If you add up everything they are saying and doing you would be crazy if you were not paranoid. This election is a civil war in my opinion. The GOP has a very dark and totalitarian view of this country's future.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)Must be someone else. I'm from Ohio.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)The handle of the person I was communicating with used Bohunk in his email. I thought you might be him. Just a coincidence then.
Sounds like you live in a rough neighborhood there. Anecdotally, I had email from a fellow who wanted to move back to Colorado who was living in Tennessee. He was a Democratic activist during the Kerry run. His mail box was burned and the country commissioners cut the county road off from his property denying him access. He also sent a picture of some redneck trying to run into his truck with his lawn tractor. He lived somewhere near Nashville I believe and MSN messed up my email and I lost those emails from what I can tell.
Where I play golf, politics has ended some relationships with golfers I have known for 30 years. Most of them are on public pensions and Medicare and some get Social Security. Yet they viciously hate Obama.
This election is happening in a very "civil war" atmosphere. It is ugly here in Colorado. My district changed and my Congressional Rep's name is now Ed Perlmutter a two term representative, who I talked to personally many times. We just found out that Joe Coors Jr (69) is running against him. The Coors family is thick with the Kochs and other billionaires. After Nixon resigned in 1972 and the GOP got roasted Joe Coors Sr spent millions of dollars saving and resurrecting the GOP nationally. the Coors family is a vicious racist and secretive fascist family here in Colorado.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)...a Democrat-majority senate allows the bill to the floor and votes on it where it passes with 96 votes, then a Democrat president signs it and Democrat mayors in largely blue cities are cracking down on OWS.
Egads! Those republicans are diabolic!
Fists are scary.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)We have two supposed Democrats, the Denver mayor and Colorado governor, who were more than happy to crack down. And you are correct there were Democrats who also cracked down. And I do find that troubling and puzzling. We have a lot of Democrats who are blue dog Demo's they seem to come from GOP majority or even districts where they feel they must be center right to win.
It is a strategy that allows you to consort with the enemy just to be in office. During WWII it would be like the Vichy government with France.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)But where have the big, MSM-sit-up-and-take-notice crackdowns come from? DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Oakland, Boston, etc. Even Bloomberg in NYC, while being a GOPer, is a GOPer in a liberal city that met the news with a shoulder-shrug.