Posted on 07/20/2009 4:28:28 PM PDT by 7thson
IT'S A COLD, gray morning. The sky is dark and it looks like it's going to rain. But there are lots of families here waiting in line for the new link. Up ahead through the crowd I see my friend Angie and her mom walking back from the front of the line.
"Hey Angie!" But Angie just manages a weak smile and a wave as her mom pulls her past us. Her mom is wiping away tears.
"They said I'm too sick for the new link," Angie says. With a bony white hand Angie is holding her collar closed against the wind. Her mom has her other hand, pulling her along. Angie is pale and spindly 'cause she's got some serious disease I can't pronounce.
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The question I have, will this happen? Can it happen? At what point will the citizens say enough is enough?
link?
and then when hard working, low wage laborers struggle working 60+ hours a week just to get by, they bring up ant and grasshopper fables. Right wingers are totally out to lunch.
The comments, dude.... some people would rather be slaves
That was a very disturbing story. I will definitely be passing it along to others.
Cheers!
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
- speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776”
— Samuel Adams
What’s your question?
Think of it more as a yoke not a necklace.
Oh nothing, interesting story. I would doubt the necklace thing but its probably an allegory. I would think they would use an implanted chip is all.
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