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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:22 PM
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Remember when "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING"...
... was a slur used by republicans who believed that Democrats wanted to have our faces in everyones business? When republicans claimed to fearlessly protect the rights of individuals to not be harrassed by 'the government'?

I do. And I realize now,
I've lived too long

- up is down- bad is good- America votes to be evil and calls our victims 'the monsters'.


where do you go when there is no place left to go?
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:26 PM
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1. Hell, when I lived in Kansas in the early '90s (the age of
the black helicopter talk) a fashionable bumper sticker was, "I love my country but fear my government". Funny how I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 05:31 PM
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2. I've often thought we on the left should co-opt that one.
This nation has become the RW fear-mongering zealots' nightmare come true--under a Republican administration, legislative body, and Supreme Court.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 06:16 PM
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3. funny, I always thought of it as referring to some power-crazed
group, usually right-wing. silly me.
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