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                                             November 7, 2011

  This isn't a new thought... but isn't
  it striking how much the American Right
  has come to resemble the old Soviet           Hell, we've even
  dictatorship?                                 invaded Afghanistan.

  The official propaganda
  dominating the news...

  The rigged elections...                   LAST_EXIT_FOR_DEMOCRACY

  The supression of dissent in                        BURNED_IN_2004
  the name of unity--

                         COWARDLY_LIONIZED
                                                "The fixed image of idealism
     Did there exist a single                   and violence did idealistic
     Republican without some                    violence to the facts.  For
     reservations about the Bush                years the Marxist intellectual
     Jr. regime?  Could you find                believed he served his party
     one willing to voice them at               by violating experience, by
     the time?                                  overlooking embarassing
                                                details, by grossly
                                                simplifying the data, and
                                                above all by conceptualizing
                                                the event _before_ having
  The suppression of free                       studied it."  Sartre, "The
  scientific inquiry (evolution,                Search for Method", p.23
  climate change) ala Lysenkoism
  under Stalin.                                             POLAR_SARTRE

  The complete abandonment of any standard
  of morality in it's conduct in military
  affairs or in "intelligence".
                                            Chomsky would have it that
     Kidnapping people and                  'twas ever thus, and he has
     locking them up in secret              a point, but I really do
     torture centers...                     think things got worse under
                                            the Bush Jr. regime.
     You couldn't make up a
     better piece of anti-US                    Certainly it got
     propaganda if you tried,                   more blatant.
     and there's *no need* to
     make it up, it was, and
     apparently *still is* true.



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