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In reply to the discussion: Obama's 170 degrees (going on 180) on Torture is a sad and scary spectacle [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Scary beyond belief.
I remember back in the Bush era days, Mike Malloy asked the audience about the Holocaust. How could it happen? When did the writing on the wall indicate that the society was headed in that direction?
After some hours of discussion, what it all boiled down to was this: once one person could have their life ruined by torture or death due to unproven charges, then so could ten or twenty people or a hundred or a half million or ten million.
And seeing that the American people have now - not once - but twice embarked on horrible torturous wars, once on account of OOOGAH BOOGAH, scarey Saddam Hussein, and now OOOGAH BOOGAH, scarey ISIS, I guess we are gonna see a Holocaust in our lifetimes. It won't be against most Jewish people, (just those who dissent.) And it most certainly will not affect the One Percent. But it will be against poor people, and dissidents and those who are unfortunate enough to have a Muslim name, or those who are against Gm seeds and Monsanto, or who believe in the truth involving what is painting our California skies with plumes of rain-drying up dessicants, etc.