Incoherent Ramblings of Paranoid Dem
It suddenly occurred to me, as I read my book this afternoon, that if Bush had his way none of us would know how to read or be educated enough to question his actions. My thoughts traveled to the plot of Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature it takes to burn a book). Perhaps those of us with similar fears should begin stockpiling some of the great books in history--and maybe a few lighthearted mysteries--so that when Bush declares martial law, we can sit quietly in our dark hovels, with just a tiny candle, and we can read to each other.
For those of you who are only starting out as adults, please become as educated as you can! It is our only true weapon against tyranny that I'm afraid is very much in the very near future.
For those of you who are only starting out as adults, please become as educated as you can! It is our only true weapon against tyranny that I'm afraid is very much in the very near future.
posted by Gladmomma at 1:20 PM
2 Comments:
Your description is close to accurate...you're paranoid. Which is NOT to say you don't have cause for being that way. I'd like to tell you your paranoia is completely groundless, but we've been given too much reason to know otherwise. I DO however, hope your dire predictions are wrong.
I must disagree with the person who called you paranoid. Obviously, he isn't using his 4th amendment rights and is ready to give them up to Bush and Co. Perhaps he needs to sit down and read a history book, like the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Here is an excerpt from the book:
At his request the Center leader, Monsignor Kaas, submitted as a basis for discussion a list of questions which added up to a demand that Hitler promise to govern constitutionally. But Hitler, tricking both Kaas and his cabinet members, reported to the latter that the Center had made impossible demands and that there was no chance of agreement. He therefore proposed that the President be asked to dissolve the Reichstag and call new elections. Hugenberg and Papen were trapped, but after a solemn assurance from the Nazi leader that the cabinet would remain unchanged however the elections turned out, they agreed to go along with him. New elections were set for March 5.
For the first time—in the last relatively free election Germany was to have—the Nazi Party now could employ all the vast resources of the government to win votes. Goebbels was jubilant. "Now it will be easy," he wrote in his diary on February 3, "to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money."(2)
Paranoid? Us? I hardly think so. We remember history.
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