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In reply to the discussion: You want to know why Obama Admin is Wrong on Drone Killings? [View all]plethoro
(594 posts)29. Yes, I've read Orwell's book a few times, but, admittedly, not
for awhile. Carl Sagan warned of this too.
In my opinion it is past flashpoint and can not be turned back. We are a fascist state and that picture you posted from 1984 the movie could actually be someone we know rather well...I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
My wife and I will be dead long before the end and our only child will be left to deal with it. This is why my wife and I, ages 68 and 67, still work over a hundred hours a week to make sure she'll have enough money to survive. She elected not to bring any children into this wretched world and so she will end our family. The thing I am most curious about is how will the actual end happen? Will they simply round up the people and shoot them, or will they simply work them to death? Will they collect unwelcome children and gas them? Will the people still be allowed to have houses or will they be assigned to work camps, concrete huts or whatever?
I am now taking it day-by-day and do the best for my diabetics that I monitor and Alzheimer's patients I do volunteer work for. But I am running out of hope and steam together. Well, sorry to drone on, green. Please accept my apology. When you are the one always in charge there is no one left to talk to. Later.
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I keep thinking of the explosion this would cause if BUSH was still in the WH
MotherPetrie
Feb 2013
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This is the logic and morality of a rogue state. The U.S. will never be a credible
DirkGently
Feb 2013
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