America: A Nation of Good Germans?

[NJCher]

Sound familiar?

* these people were going to destroy our country, so what we had to do was just self-defense

* anyone who expresses the least amount of dissent may lose his or her job or livelihood

* anything I might have done wouldn't have made any difference

* people in positions of high authority convinced me that whatever they were doing was for the best

See "The Good German" at:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Good_German_Syndrome.html


Cher

[gmoney]

1. We were only following orders...

[Carla in Ca]

6. Being a 'good' German meant being a pacifist. eom

[gumby]

2. This is an IMPORTANT topic

and one that I've been thinking about for a long time.

From the list: "although the forms of protest I engaged in were mocked and derided by the government and by those in the media, I did everything I could do and I sure felt good about myself as I protested."

That's just crap.

The hundreds of thousands of US citizens that have protested this fascist regime, starting with the un-inauguration, didn't do so for their self-gratification. The millions and millions, here and throughout the world, that protested the war against Iraq were not motivated by some sort of self-indulgence.

So the bottom line is: What are we supposed to do? That IS the queation at hand.

btw, that's a good site

[Pallas180]

3. keep protesting. Calling capital, sending letters, emails to the stinkin

media....

in other words....don;t lay down and roll over

make a stink

yell

get attention that something is very wrong in this country.

Look at one lil big mouthed grandma and mother did, Ms. Sue Niederman.

The world saw what was going on in this country right in front of the
press.

Read the front page of DU. There's a great letter about it.

That;s what we do.....until they're defeated.

And if they steal the election, we en masse go to DC and just stand there....and stay there....

Convince everyone you know not to go to work.

Dont buy gas

Dont fly

Dont generate sales taxes to keep these nutcakes wars going.

Dont send your children to die in their wars.

Send them out of the country instead

No cannon fodder, no wars.

JUST SAY NO.

[Senior citizen]

5. We were SUPPOSED to practice preventive political medicine.

You know, regular checkups, recognize early warning symptoms, seek immediate treatment.

But we didn't have coverage, so we put it off, and now, even with radical intervention, it may be too late.

We've got fascism, the deadliest social disease the world has ever known. But our T-cell count (Kerry voters) is still pretty high. However even if we do survive, we've damaged our natural immunity so badly that I wouldn't want to hazard a prognosis.

And I'll tell you one thing--even if we end up perfectly healthy, there's a lot of people that will never sleep with us again.

[aquart]

4. 900 poll monitors gathered at Columbia Law School today.

That was just one bunch of the 25,000 needed and anticipated. I'm pretty sure the same scene is being enacted on campuses all over this nation. Lawyers and law students and people like me who will take exit polls.

People who will travel on buses for days or fly at their own expense. People volunteering their geek skills, too, to watch those dubious machines.

You can moan about good Germans. The rest of us will be good citizens.

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Thanks for what you're doing aquart.

I'm going to a meeting next Saturday for pollwatchers. Fortunately it won't cost me anything. I think Texas is going to start turning pink. I want to make sureour numbers reflect it.

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