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truedelphi

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15. Have you ever read "They Thought They Were Free" ??

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 03:37 PM

Jan 2014

By author Milton Meyer.

He was an American who went over to Germany in the early fifties, and passed himself off as a gentile, in order to figure out what went on inside Germany in the 1930's.

It is a mind bending, life altering book.

The parallels between what went on there and what is going on here, are indeed all encompassing. And part of the program is that many subjects are on the "no discuss it" list.

Except here it is anyone that has a lousy credit record who is wearing a computerized equivalent of a yellow star. You can't hold a job, can't remain free from police hassles, can't do much once that credit record shows you are a "parasite." And for some that lousy credit record indicates you are a "terrorist." (Credit ratings actually cntribute to how people put on the no fly list are assembled!)

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"Dear Editor of the Wall Street Journal: It's started: The great unwashed are coming" [View all] kpete Jan 2014 OP

Perfect. jsr Jan 2014 #1

I hope they fear us! L0oniX Jan 2014 #2

Too many of 'them' are so drunk on hubris, they lack the sense for that. IrishAyes Jan 2014 #3

They do. bvar22 Jan 2014 #13

+1000 blackspade Jan 2014 #17

+2000 bbgrunt Jan 2014 #18

true frwrfpos Jan 2014 #20

+10,000, Notice a US Congressman makes 174,000, Snowden was making 200,000 + harun Jan 2014 #25

Perfectly put, harun! Nt tex-wyo-dem Jan 2014 #28

The Total Surveillance/Security State only exists to protect the interests of the 1% Enthusiast Jan 2014 #30

Watch Dirty Wars on Netflix. JSOC is murdering inocent women and children. L0oniX Jan 2014 #34

Not yet grahamhgreen Jan 2014 #19

but soon kpete Jan 2014 #22

Hehe! grahamhgreen Jan 2014 #24

They'd better. Mansions burn. Yachts sink. Just sayin'. /nt mwb970 Jan 2014 #32

Tee hee. rec! cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #4

Well, to paraphrase Jay Gould . . . Brigid Jan 2014 #5

They already have pscot Jan 2014 #9

Almost typed in "LOL" - truedelphi Jan 2014 #14

Tip of the hat in that first panel with the reference to that "Kristallnacht" creep - bullwinkle428 Jan 2014 #6

Sounds like he got off easy Armstead Jan 2014 #7

I'm guessing he also thought them speaking French rather than bullwinkle428 Jan 2014 #11

Kristallnacht dotymed Jan 2014 #12

Have you ever read "They Thought They Were Free" ?? truedelphi Jan 2014 #15

+1 a whole bunch.......nt Enthusiast Jan 2014 #29

Don't blame Mr. Perkins, mstinamotorcity2 Jan 2014 #33

What's most amazing to me sulphurdunn Jan 2014 #8

Figures that he would be using a typewriter.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2014 #10

It's not just that they're rich........ LongTomH Jan 2014 #16

Very well said and spot on. Enthusiast Jan 2014 #31

It may be so. defacto7 Jan 2014 #21

Just a cartoon. The enemy has nothing to worry about, and won't for at least a decade or two. jtuck004 Jan 2014 #23

Imminent rueage n/t Little_Wing Jan 2014 #26

Or in the words of the Wizard of Id: Cleita Jan 2014 #27