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Pathologising dissent? Now that’s Orwellian
Spiked-Online ^ | Wednesday 4 March 2009 | Brendan O’Neill

Posted on 03/08/2009 8:39:15 AM PDT by Leisler

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1 posted on 03/08/2009 8:39:15 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: Leisler

I have 0bama Revulsion Syndrome...


2 posted on 03/08/2009 8:41:45 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 45 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Leisler

Study away, but don’t get too close....I bite. Can’t help myself—it’s part of my disorder-—surely you soft-hearted liberals will understand and cut me some slack just as you do any other “victim”, right?


3 posted on 03/08/2009 8:51:44 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (The First Black President of the US has sold me and my children into slavery.)
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To: Leisler
I'm betting a lot of those at that conference "traveled" to get there, so they could tell us our "desire to travel" is a part of a mental disorder.

Must be part of my disorder that this doesn't make sense.

4 posted on 03/08/2009 8:53:52 AM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Chipper

Everything is a disorder to them.


5 posted on 03/08/2009 8:54:47 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Leisler

Look at pictures of Soviet streets. They’re clean (no Starbucks cups to toss). There are few cars but stolid public transportation. There are few cluttery billboards, very little non-official signage.

It’s the enviro’s dream.


6 posted on 03/08/2009 8:55:14 AM PDT by P.O.E. ("Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness")
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To: null and void
I have 0bama Revulsion Syndrome...

I have it too. Let's pray that it becomes a pandemic.

7 posted on 03/08/2009 9:04:12 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO Kenyan Usurper - "Don't Tread On Me!!!")
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To: Leisler; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

8 posted on 03/08/2009 9:06:07 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Yo, Washingtonians, the American people called. They DEMAND their country back.)
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To: Leisler

I’m going in the other direction. True believers have Narcissistic personality disorder: “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.”

It is the epitome of hubris to believe that humans can change the climate. Also environmentalism as it is practiced by this group is a rich man’s sport. Many of the most vocal adherants are extremely wealthy and not affected by the added costs Carbon Taxes and strict policy will inflict on the rest of us. They lack empathy.


9 posted on 03/08/2009 9:06:22 AM PDT by dervish (it is as bad as we feared)
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To: Leisler
For a retail item why don't you sell

Do it yourself frontal lobotomy kits for $99.95.

Guaranteed or your money back, if you remember.

10 posted on 03/08/2009 9:19:22 AM PDT by BillT (New Executive Order to abolish the WS Constitution to be signed to save the US Constitution)
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To: Leisler

I believe there are a certain number among us who have a psychological and emotional need for grand causes to give their lives meaning. Many actually use the phrase: “make a difference” and a few even: “save the world”. Some have these urges in context and do good and practical work. Others are mostly emotion driven and attach themselves to the most grandiose, world saving causes they can find.

No cause satisfies the emotion driven world savers quite like the global warming scam. It’s definitely a religion for many, and is perfect for the misty eyed lefty looking for meaning in his or her life.


11 posted on 03/08/2009 9:25:00 AM PDT by Will88
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Maybe a divorce, a la Walter Williams is a good idea. Otherwise, it's going to get ugly, REAL UGLY.

5.56mm

12 posted on 03/08/2009 9:28:57 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: dervish
Many of the most vocal adherants are extremely wealthy and not affected by the added costs Carbon Taxes and strict policy will inflict on the rest of us.

I agree with you.

However, those who believe as you said quoted above, are mistaken.

Taken to it's end, I believe this AGW folly manifested as economy killing carbon taxes will kill the economy AND the fortunes of those who think they are immune.

When the economy fully tanks, the stock market is at zero, and the dollar is worth nothing, all the material wealth they have will wither to that which they can defend directly. A bank vault full of gold in Switzerland will not help them as they are holed up in a house in NY or California.

The elite had better wake up. If they get what they want, the collapse will be total. Then they will NOT get what they want.

Hunger and disease are the great equalizers.

13 posted on 03/08/2009 9:33:22 AM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Mygirlsmom

does part of your pathology include triggerfinger syndrome? mine does. libs need to stay far far away... :)


14 posted on 03/08/2009 9:41:09 AM PDT by musicbymuzak
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To: Leisler
The Algore green/Obama socialists/Republican lay down future.


(feminist MIT lefty in green t-shirt. At one time MIT was known for power plants, stuff like that. Now it's back to the past stuff.)

15 posted on 03/08/2009 9:52:31 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: M Kehoe
I can't wait. I figure the smackdown could be over in a couple of months.
16 posted on 03/08/2009 9:53:32 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: dervish
Was this part satirical:

"It will be a gathering of those from the top of society – ‘psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists’ "

Who says that people that don't produce a damn thing or actually generate any wealth are at the top of society?
17 posted on 03/08/2009 10:02:01 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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So-called “environmentalists” would have been first in line to support Hitler’s Blud and Boden movement and helped Himmler with his “Solutions for the Eastern Territories.”


18 posted on 03/08/2009 10:45:25 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: BikerJoe

Modern Druid Priest class, living off the labor of the ‘unclean’.


19 posted on 03/08/2009 11:37:45 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: sergeantdave
It's for the children.


20 posted on 03/08/2009 11:39:48 AM PDT by Leisler
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