[Chancellor Palpatine]

Ah, yes - that great old liberal logic that a known psychopathic, monolithic government is better than any period of instability which may result from removal of that entity. You've learned it well, but unfortunately for you, the rest of us see it for what it is - shallow whimpering from people who are afraid to take aggressive steps in their own lives, projecting their personal inadequacies on society.

Give it up. Nobody here is going to salvage your life, there is no Prince Charming to whisk you away or make all your decisions for you, nor are women going to have that intolerable burden of the vote, responsibility for their own life's failures, or the burden of waking up and going to work taken from them.

[Askel5]

THE CONDEMNED

There is a wildness still in England that will not feed
In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer's hand,
Easy to kill, not easy to tame. It will never breed
In a zoo for the public pleasure. It will not be planned.

Do not blame us too much if we that are hedgerow folk
Cannot swell the rejoicings at this new world you make -
We, hedge-hogged as Johnson or Borrow, strange to the yoke
As Landor, surly as Cobbett (that badger), birdlike as Blake.

A new scent troubles the air -- to you, friendly perhaps
But we with animal wisdom have understood that smell.
To all our kind its message is Guns, Ferrets, and Traps,
And a Ministry gassing the little holes in which we dwell.

C. S. Lewis -- Open Mic Nite