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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 10:54 PM
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Has anyone noticed how much BushCo HATES it when people don't...
...go along with the party line?

One of the things that really irritates me about them is that they simply don't tolerate any views other than their own. If you disagree with them, they attack for the kill.

Unfortunately for them, our form of government works best when we have dissent that keeps either party from doing anything extreme.

I just really, REALLY hate it when someone tries to obstruct my freedom of speech. I call it thought control because it's what they seem to be trying to do. They've read Orwell too many times, I guess. Too bad no one told them that Orwell didn't write 1984 as a treatise on creating the Bush government!

It really does feel like I'm living in a dictatorship. A sad day for the US.

It makes me want to run out and tell everyone the opposite of everything they say just because I still can. :evilgrin:
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 10:57 PM
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1. That's because Bush & Co. are Extremists
They do damn-near the polar opposite of what makes common sense on most issues.

The strange thing is in doing that, their Good Ole' Boy friends make tons of money in the process.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 10:59 PM
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2. So true...
There's a really good section in "Rogue State: America at War With the World" by T.D. Allman that explains why Bush is the way he is and can't deal with people who don't agree with him.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:00 PM
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3. That was Gibson's logic
In his Fox News rant about why Rove should get a medal for blowing Plame's cover, he said that the real problem being investigated at the time of the leak was why a "peacenik" was sent to Niger to justify the war.

In other words, only those following lockstep should have been allowed to work for the administration - anyone daring to provide an opposing view should be at a desk job in the basement, perhaps doing clerical work.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:33 PM
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7. They want anyone with an opposing view ............
to be permanently unable to find a job, and starve to death.

Such good Christians they are.
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:37 PM
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8. Geesh, he wasn't a peacenik, I think he was a Repubican, just
not the lying kind. That Gibson guy is disgusting. Did you hear him calling Valerie Plame 'wifie', a liar and a mysogynist. They really know how to put pond scum in their anchor chairs over at Faux, don't they?

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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:00 PM
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4. "... they attack for the kill."
Edited on Tue Jul-12-05 11:01 PM by madeline_con
It's supposed to be encouraging to know that this type of government is weak, because a little exposure would tumble their house of cards.

I keep hearing the RWers say that Dems are insane, actually mentally challenged, because we don't swallow everything they say whole, and ask for more.

Another alarming thing is the way the misadministration has a large number of people afraid to speak their minds, as if the gulag (there, I said it!) at GITMO yawns in anticipation of the arrival of those who'd dare voice dissent.

Sure, the type of government we're racing headlong into is bound to fall, but many before, just as corrupt, have lasted for centuries before being brought down.

(A few disparate observations from a concerned citizen.)

((edited for pet peeve about spelling))
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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:13 PM
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5. I agree absolutely.
One of the things that revolted me in the Republican party was the move to that total lock-step mind control thing. That's just plain unAmerican.

I've been around a long time, and I've never seen our government so eerily echo a dictatorship. It gives me the willies.

I love my country because of the Constitution, our guaranteed freedoms, and our shared ideology. Having someone try to shove some kind of fascism down my throat makes me want to puke.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:28 PM
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6. "... makes me want to puke"
They keep chipping away at our freedoms, and getting away with it, and that is very scary.

I watched an inspiring show about the French Revolution this afternoon. We need a "national razor"... :evilgrin:
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 12:57 AM
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11. war on terror or reign of terror?
These freaks are trying to punish people for not being sufficiently pro-regime. Frankly, more people are terrorized by them than the so-called "terrorists" within the US' own borders as far as I can tell.

The parallel with Robespierre should indeed be disturbing. I, for one, regard it as only a matter of time before they resort to his methods.
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Ce qui la baise Donating Member (119 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 11:56 PM
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9. Bleating required learning at an early age.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-13-05 12:00 AM
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10. It is pretty screwed up that, as a democrat, I am not allowed to hear
our dictator speak in public. Only if you are a member of "the party" are you allowed that privilege.

Hell, I pay taxes that support this government...I have every right to hear the Fuhrer speak if I so desire.
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