“I will not hold for the penalty of death until you can show me that man is incapable of error.” Thomas Jefferson.Four things are required for tyranny, lacking all four, there is a chance of freedom, but with all four, hope can only come from outside.Censorship: We have that now, not directly from government, but indirectly by corporate sponsors who also own the government.Conscription: Its on the law books, but not enforced as long as massive unemployment forces the poor to “volunteer”.Capital Punishment: If life is not an unalienable right, liberty can’t be either.Prejudice: Not quite the Nazi concept of an artificially designated “Üntermenchen”, but close, with a diffused grab-bag of Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, gays, poor, political parties not Republicrat, peacemakers, etc.CCCP, switch to the Cyrilic alphabet and you will get one of the more successful manifestations of this philosophy..“Those who refuse to study history will be compelled to relive it.” paraphrased from George Santyana.I find the blood-lust of the previous posts disgusting and unworthy of a civilized culture.
“I will not hold for the penalty of death until you can show me that man is incapable of error.” Thomas Jefferson.Four things are required for tyranny, lacking all four, there is a chance of freedom, but with all four, hope can only come from outside.Censorship: We have that now, not directly from government, but indirectly by corporate sponsors who also own the government.Conscription: Its on the law books, but not enforced as long as massive unemployment forces the poor to “volunteer”.Capital Punishment: If life is not an unalienable right, liberty can’t be either.Prejudice: Not quite the Nazi concept of an artificially designated “Üntermenchen”, but close, with a diffused grab-bag of Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, gays, poor, political parties not Republicrat, peacemakers, etc.CCCP, switch to the Cyrilic alphabet and you will get one of the more successful manifestations of this philosophy..“Those who refuse to study history will be compelled to relive it.” paraphrased from George Santyana.I find the blood-lust of the previous posts disgusting and unworthy of a civilized culture.