Something Orwellian that we need to keep in mind in the coming days

[Horse with no Name]

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all of the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. "...."1984" by George Orwell.

I do NOT believe this group will go gently into the night.

[MadMaddie]

1. My friend you are right....and if they go down they are willing

to take the whole country with them..

These Republic tyrants are probably the most dangerous in 2007. It's going to get ugly....

[aquart]

2. Now would be a good time to remember

That the attorneys who were fired for bringing honest, impartial prosecutions were all hired because they were good Republicans.

Good Republicans and Americans. The two are not always incompatible.

[MadMaddie]

3. Never a truer statement made.

[Horse with no Name]

6. It makes me afraid of the ones that are left.

They are the tainted ones.

[leftofthedial]

4. the whole country? no

the whole world

[blues90]

5. This has been my underlying fear .

This is why I have little if any faith in politicians and the more time that goes buy and the more people put so much hope in the system we have the more I feel and realize that this admin and it's outreaching limbs have designed and arranged this chaos with full intent and they have no intention of going down without taking whatever stands in their way down with them .

Now perhaps many here may feel this is negative thinking or defeatist , to me it is looking at the hard facts without reserve even though hard facts are quite depressing .

I know through reading and going through the past that we have been lied to over and over again whether it be reasons we went into wars or reasons certain political events came into play .

It's fairly easy to sell the public anything and at this there is great success .