[null and void]

The lights are down in Germany
and Germany is closed to me
different somehow this time.

The airport's stiff, cold corridors
ring empty beats through hollow feet
that I find to be mine.

Different Germany.
History repeats somehow.
Different Germany.
Afraid to know you now.

And past my eyes with leathered gaze
stare clean-cut boys all dressed as men
in sharpened uniform.
Who turned the clock? (Moved on or back)
And what dark chill is gathering still
before the storm.

Out in the street a tableau double-glazed
with laughing girls whose fastened smiles
are clearly not meant for me.

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[Beagle8U]

“Among those journalists are James Risen of The New York Times and my colleague and friend James Rosen of Fox News.”

Look closely at that. The chances that the NYT James Risen wasn’t just a mistake in their efforts to get FNC’s James Rosen is zero!

[ErnBatavia]

When I was in the corporate world, our attorney loved to use the term “Hindered and chilled” in whatever he was writing up. We peons picked up on that and used the term as a running funny.

[Fear The People]

[Gritty]

The Brownshirts are busily at work except this time they are in the Democrat Party instead of the NSDAP. Patriots are the new Juden.

[Fear The People]

Sorry, wrong image...

My bad...

There is a precedent. Not so long ago, remember a lowly rodeo clown story...

[kidd]

Classic examples of "chilling" occurred in the 1970s, when FBI agents and U.S. Army soldiers, in business suits with badges displayed or in full uniform, showed up at anti-war rallies and proceeded to photograph and tape record protesters.

This was done at one large TEA party rally at the Connecticut Capitol building in Hartford a couple of years ago. There were uniformed police officers taking pictures of the crowd from a balcony.

I just waved and smiled for the camera.

[kevslisababy]

Just fighting my corrupt neighborhood association last summer, I was called a racist to discredit me because I don’t like the current administration.

It means nothing to me, because I know I’m not, and I don’t give a crap what these people think of me.

Maybe that isn’t the correct attitude to have, but it can carry on.

BTW, the corrupt association members ended up fleeing in the night or moving out. so I guess I was proven correct in more than one way. I did get a few apologies. But I am amazed how quickly and willingly certain people will believe the charge when they really know better.

[reefdiver]

I exercise restraint when writing something in these spaces and I’m sure I’m not alone

[lonevoice]

Ping for a very powerful and well-written column by Judge Andrew Napolitano. Chilling, indeed.