Reply #69: Ding! ding! ding! You win the prize!

[izquierdista]

"The easiest way for the gov to remove people from this society right now would be to label them as sex offender. I could see that being a weapon used against political dissenters in the future."

The only mistake you made was to use the hypothetical "would be" instead of the present, happening right now verb "is". There is a booming business of disappearing people while the authorities cough out "found child pornography on his computer". After the arrest, the local district attorney is assured of a slam dunk conviction which will advance his political career and make up for all the tough cases he has botched. After the conviction, the privatized prison industry is assured of another production unit that they can bill the state for. If the poor shlub ever gets released, he will be tagged forever as a "sex offender" and watched closer than a slave who had been a runaway, which turns out to be an apt metaphor, because he will live a pre 14th amendment existence. All of this with the approval of so-called liberals who can't distinguish between a baby rapist and someone who snapped a picture at the beach when a 17 year old lost the top to her bikini.

Another news item today is about the woman in jail for having a frank discussion with her teenage boys about sex. She has been started down this long road, one from which she will never be able to return. The United States has finally succeeded in getting children to denounce their parents, so they can lock them up as undesirables. The fact that occasionally one of their own, like Bob Allen or Larry Craig gets nabbed is a minor inconvenience compared to the amount of fear they can stir up, the ability to detain anyone indefinitely, the presumption of guilt that follows, and the lifelong stigma they can attach.

When the Nazis Came
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me
-Rev. Martin Niemoller