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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-23-03 10:03 PM
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18. Yes, JanMichael...your vision is a bit tame
Edited on Sun Nov-23-03 10:04 PM by tom_paine
Actually, I hope things turn out to be as GOOD as you lay out.

I think that Heinrich Ashcroft, Heartless Dick and the rest are just itching to test out their new Police State powers, and will continue to shove shit in our faces until someone does something.

Then, when someone does something, the REAL fun begins for these treasonous bastards.

I think, if and after the re-appointment of Emperor Bunnpyants*, anything is possible. They have the police power, unchecked and ready to go, they have the infrastructure. They have a growing mass of propagandized automatons who will kill when ordered, particularly if given the slightest authority and promise that they can live out their sick and murderous fantasies without reprisal (and, in fact, with the blessings of the Empire).

They have a propaganda machine that is by far the most potent in the world, approaching Orwellian levels and they have the great mass of people harried, hurried, tired, tamed, and ready to accept whatever iron boot on the neck as long as they get to keep their steel-belted radials.

I look at my co-workers, the people I meet, and I see scarcely a single spark of the people who helped to defeat Hitler. What I see are instead the people who allowed Hitler's rise to power and who, when push comes to shove, will cower in their homes while their neighbors are brutalized, taken away, whatever it will be this time around.

I hope I am wrong, and that somewhere deep within Imperial Amerika, the soul of Free America pulses within.

But history suggests it's not bloody likely.

Does this mean I am giving up? NEVER!
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