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plethoro

(594 posts)
29. Yes, I've read Orwell's book a few times, but, admittedly, not
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 01:16 PM
Feb 2013

for awhile. Carl Sagan warned of this too.

“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
..."
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...

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 #1
The double standard is mind boggling. forestpath Feb 2013 #5
DU would be red hot with condemnation. MNBrewer Feb 2013 #9
In other words Bainbridge Bear Feb 2013 #16
The Republic is dead. MNBrewer Feb 2013 #18
HELL NO, the Democratic Class is dead, I've heard KakistocracyHater Feb 2013 #19
Hence the death of the Republic MNBrewer Feb 2013 #21
technically isn't America a Democratic Republic? KakistocracyHater Feb 2013 #22
.... bigwillq Feb 2013 #10
Yes, and then the long boring posts trying to justify it. Amazing. n-t Logical Feb 2013 #33
So many paranoid hypotheticals. nt EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #2
I still say it's the sinister-sounding word 'drone' that gets them going. randome Feb 2013 #4
I'm sure you forgot the :sarcasm: tag Flying Squirrel Feb 2013 #23
There is so little left of our constitution Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #3
There is a campaign on the internets...to say..Constitution doesn't matter... KoKo Feb 2013 #32
Doesn't matter? Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #34
they and their parents? relatives? children? abelenkpe Feb 2013 #6
If you are "associated with Threats to USA by blood or fraternization.. KoKo Feb 2013 #7
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Feb 2013 #8
I'm glad someone is speaking out. Peace_Sells Feb 2013 #11
This is the logic and morality of a rogue state. The U.S. will never be a credible DirkGently Feb 2013 #12
This DUer is too stunned to comment. liberalmuse Feb 2013 #13
Drone killings or ANY killings Flying Squirrel Feb 2013 #24
This is mind-boggling. We have become a prison state, and plethoro Feb 2013 #14
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a training manual green for victory Feb 2013 #27
Yes, I've read Orwell's book a few times, but, admittedly, not plethoro Feb 2013 #29
Just think if Romney was in office he could get rid oldbanjo Feb 2013 #15
K&R Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #17
kill on sight... there are rules quadrature Feb 2013 #20
Hundreds of thousands dead quaker bill Feb 2013 #25
du rec. nt xchrom Feb 2013 #26
Obama is doing what he said he would do. Soundman Feb 2013 #28
K&R Solly Mack Feb 2013 #30
No geographic limit....so drones could kill here in the US. Lars39 Feb 2013 #31
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