From: Randy (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 20:57:09 MDT
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:07:02 -0700, you wrote:
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>"It will do you no good to plead the statist's claim that the current totalitarian structures and unilateral war against the entire
>world were occasioned by events of September 11th. Just as Adolf Hitler was able to convert the burning of the Reichstag into the
>raison d'être for his militaristic campaigns and domestic police-state, George Bush has been exploiting the World Trade Center
>attacks to advance a political agenda that goes far beyond the brutalities of early September.
Amen. brother!
>The neoconservatives - the
>"neocon-men" of this coup - have engaged themselves in a tireless campaign, fueled by self-righteous absolutism, to fashion upon
>Americans a police-state transcending that of Abraham Lincoln.
I say, Amen!
>"Secret trials by military tribunals, from which there would be no right of appeal; the close monitoring of people's telephone and
>Internet communications, banking and medical records, and credit card purchases; the power of an imperial president, usurped from
>Congress, to declare war on whomever it fits his momentary fancy to attack; the threatening of those who dissent from any of Mr.
>Bush's policies; the creation of a "Homeland Security" cabinet post - whose very name recalls a preoccupation with "the Fatherland";
>and an increasing irrelevance of Congress in the development of government policy - other than to rubber-stamp Mr. Bush's proposals;
>fail to arouse much interest from most Americans...."
The Sheeple, they are to blame!
Once those human critters squeeze out a few crotchfruit, and they get
addicted to those beta endorphins, they turn into....Sheeple! (With a
few exceptions).
>"In years to come, when Americans have managed to put an end to their collective insanity and rediscover what it is like to live in
>peace and freedom with one another in a society capable of producing life-sustaining values, you may be asked by your grandchild:
>"what was it like back then, living under a police state? What did you do?" How will you answer her?"
>What I have done since I was a child (Cold War years) is make a study of this "collective insanity"- fads, speculative manias,
>religious beliefs (eg state-worship), how armies are raised and wars are financed, the structure and evolution of the Establishment,
>why civilizations appear and why they collapse, and so on. This has occupied very much of my time for the past four years. Maybe
>this research and the coherent ensemble of theories it has generated (which I call "Psychohistory" after Asimov) will become useful.
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>Forrest
I hear ya. This is the kernel of speculative fiction, the richest vein
of thought the brain can mine. Speculative fiction---it turned me
into what I am today.
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