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midnight

(26,624 posts)
1. Sounds like a program If you see something say something.... It's being used in Milwaukee to get
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:52 AM
Aug 2013

rid of county workers...

dickthegrouch

(3,170 posts)
2. Apparently it takes more bravery to allow freedom
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:43 AM
Aug 2013

than any of our current so-called representatives have.

I don't understand why they need people to turn in their co-workers if they have Xkeystroke and PRISM. We probably turn ourselves in every day with our on-line musings and pontifications.

truth2power

(8,219 posts)
3. And there is nothing...absolutely NOTHING, that Obama could do
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:46 AM
Aug 2013

such that some folks would cease to support him.

He is the HEAD of this supposed "Government of the People". The buck stops with him.

Oh wait...I guess he's playing 15 dimensional chess.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
4. Frustrating, isn't it?
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:53 AM
Aug 2013

I was raised to put principles over personalities. I feel a loyalty to the Bill of Rights, not to some celebrity.

I've been very surprised to find that what makes a lot of people tick is blind loyalty to a specific individual.

I knew there was a lot of that on the right. There's also a lot of it on the left.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
8. Hitler controlled Germany by having a program where one turned in their neighbor
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 09:43 PM
Aug 2013

for any small suspension. People were expected to report on a neighbor having a child with a mental impairment. Children with disabilities could and were rounded up and sent to special orphanages. The very impaired were killed on site and buried on the grounds.

http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/r/rogow.sally/hitlers-unwanted-children

http://creation.com/hitlers-master-race-children-haunted-by-their-past

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