So this is how liberty dies? With thunderous applause

[ddeclue]

www.demsouth.com

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[Redstone]

1. Unfortunately, yes. Where did my America go?

Redstone

[cassiepriam]

2. Yes America died today.

It was on life support and the plug was pulled by Congress.

America, such a wonderful concept. Gone now. I will miss it sorely.

[Mojambo]

3. That's pretty cool. n/t

[John Gauger]

4. Who is applauding?

Are there Americans out there who actually approve of this bullshit? I'm lucky enough to have avoided such riff-raff.

[ddeclue]

5. Wing nuts and media hacks... n/t

Certainly not me...

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

(It's a line from Star Wars Episode III by the way..)

[John Gauger]

7. I know

My mother watches that movie every single day. I never liked that line myself. I always thought Lucas's dialogue was terrible. Especially between Palpatine and Mace Windu. Two phenomonal actors on screen together with no real dialogue between them. I don't watch television so I haven't heard the TV morons applauding. That's distressing to hear.

[ddeclue]

12. Didn't like I and II, I did like parts of III...

Of course the original IV, V, and VI were much much better than the first 3.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[ddeclue]

6. Great minds thinking alike...heres something from informationclearinghouse

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8993.htm

[John Gauger]

9. People really flamed Lucas

big time after that movie came out. But he wrote the plot of that movie over thirty years ago. It was based on a combination of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. The movie is not about Bush. Bush just follows all the patterns of a despicable dictator.

[ddeclue]

13. Is there like some sort of Dictatorship for Dummies book?

They do all seem to follow it to the letter don't they?

Doug D.

[John Gauger]

14. It's called 1984 by George Orwell.

If you want a complete account of everything that is wrong with governments you need only read that book. It has it all.

[ddeclue]

15. Of course...

my bad... I knew that...

[derby378]

16. Also, you should check out WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Predates 1984 by a few years, but in its own way, it's just as chilling. A true totalitarian dystopia classic.

[texastoast]

10. Yes

Just like the Germans who tacitly approved of slaughtering Jews--by doing nothing. It's likely you've not avoided them--you just haven't confronted them.

To those "Americans" who refused to get involved, who were content to say, "There's nothing I can do," and whose children (who really could do nothing) will suffer the most, I say, "The blood that will flow is on YOUR hands."

America is gone. Rest in peace.

Until, of course, we get the FUCKING legislation repealed with a specific provision that there will never be a statute of limitations on punishment for war crimes.

Get out the vote.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. That was my sig line for a long time!

From Revenge of the Sith. First time I heard it I got goosebumps. Too many times seeing the nut cases applauding the fuhrer.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

11. "I Sense A Plot To Destroy The Democrats" nt