We may as well prepare ourselves for the horror of military not civilian authority. In Chile, after the coup. when people were disappeared off the streets, they learned to shout their full name, so that someone would hopefully remember who they were before they ended up as a tortured corpse by the side of the road or just vanished having been dumped over the sea.
No not surrender your guns.
Do not go passively into the arms of the night. This is real.
Speaking for myself, death on my feet is a better fate than to die on my knees.
Was that FOR REAL? I mean NATIONAL TV real??
Quick, everybody with a daughter of child-bearing age: have her concieve this guy's baby before he's disappeared to Gitmo
WE NEED MORE LIKE THIS!
Olbermann hit the nail on the head. what a scathing commentary.
Funny thing about revolutions.
Did you know that the Iranian revolution was brought about by the distribution of caset tapes handed out to the people under the radar about the reality of the CIA controlled terrorists of the Shaw?
Distribution of such information was impossible to curtail.
We are seeing the same phenomena in the clandestine distribution of such productions as Loose Change, Terror Storm and other patriot productions.
First they are ignored
Second they are ridiculed
When they are reduced to force, when the people, see their true enemy they will be eaten alive.
Abraham Lincoln suspended habeus corpus as well- it wasn't re-instated for another 5 years.
Of course, George Bush is no Abraham Lincoln.
All I pray is that these periods of repression will be followed by periods of enlightened response- historically, that been the case. We've had many episodes of irational xenophobia in our history and we've responded, and survived and grown as a nation.
First Tuesday in November, people. There is a lot at stake. Vote early and often.
Thank you Sheepdog for your powerful comment. Its good to know that there are more than just ourselves that feel the same way...hope that this can be turned around or face what happened over 231 years ago again.