Posted on 04/19/2009 8:47:34 PM PDT by curth
Oh..., I wasn’t trying to compare it to what you were saying. I was just recalling the past, more or less, during that time period...
Didn’t mean to diminish what you were saying about it... :-)
Yeah, about being a kid; it’s a different perspective.
So, what was the deal with the guards and guns and being taken away? What was going on with that? (if you don’t mind...)
And because Communism as an economic model really sucks beyond belief, (you really have to witness it to believe its failure) seeing the bombed out buildings of East Berlin as opposed to West Berlin pretty much built up was an eye opener for me even though I was only in 2nd grade - Real life Econ 101 class. Best way to learn IMHO. ;)
lol!
Probably not. You know those ‘rogue’ FBI agents are a lot like those ‘rogue’ DHS agents who wrote that ‘report’ that she doesn’t want to claim now.
Waving back.
I guess they are concerned because we are considered acting in a potentially “unhealthy” manner. Perhaps they want to see if we are spreading a disease :P
The extreme left and the extreme right are flip sides of the same extremist coin.
"One of the most important elements of paranoia is how it affects cognition. In other words, it is not just the content of the paranoid mind, but its process, which is troublesome.
That is, the paranoid mind engages in a caricature of thought, in which they carefully scan the environment for confirmation of the paranoid thought or idea.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence. For example, Noam Chomsky is probably a genius, and yet, if you read his works, he certainly comes across as a clinical paranoid. All of his considerable intelligence is marshalled in the effort to confirm his preordained paranoid beliefs, in an absolutely closed loop. In turn, Chomsky becomes the intellectual axis around which other, far less intelligent paranoids of the Daily Kos variety orient themselves through the magic of his authority.
Every clinician knows that you cannot argue with a paranoid. Doing so immediately raises their paranoid defenses, and they will simply incorporate you into their delusions. Free to be Paranoid
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"One of the hallmarks of paranoia is that the paranoid individual becomes inordinately frightened of the object into which they have projected their paranoia. That is, paranoia is fundamentally an infantile defense mechanism through which the "bad" or unwanted content of one's own mind can be displaced and located elsewhere, so that one may gain a spurious sense of comfort and safety. ..... In fact, the further leftward you travel, the more it becomes the central organizing principle of [your] political life: projection of hatred and a near delusional fear of backlash. ..." Paranoia runs deep-into the left it will creep.
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Well, I was paranoid enough to figure I would get flamed.
You got flamed?
No, but I was expecting too. Guess I’m under the radar.
"If you know how Janet Napolitano operates, you would. She's had much of the state of AZ under camera surveillance, mostly on the highways of the greater Phoenix area. And not with just the speed cameras. There are cameras all over town monitoring traffic patterns. You can download the application on your iPhone of you want. If they wanted to profile "tea party" gatherers, they will, and they have. Believe it."
(thanks Matchett!)
“Maybe-I-wasn’t-paranoid-for-nothing ping! :-)”
Good, let em take pictures and know that we are freedom loving Americans who get our rights from above and not from elitists idiots.
I believe that it wont matter whether they know or not - lines are being drawn - people will be forced to choose.
Guess what? I just got back from our 2010 tea party and a woman ( very ordinary woman who looked like someone’s mother ) told me that last year, she saw three men dressed in black atop the parking garage that overlooked the park where 4,000 of us gathered. She said they were taking pictures with high powered telescopic lenses.
It is interesting because I had draped a banner across the side of our canopy so that this could not happen... and then lo and behold, I heard about it exactly one year later!
I’m sure they have a file on all of us ‘community organizers’ while meanwhile we have a communist infiltrator working for the enemy, in our White House. Pretty upsetting.
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