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To: dr_who
Bull. If there is anyone in this country who's being sent to a gulag or just shot for speaking their mind, it's the exception and not the rule. Yes, there are worrying trends, but we aren't living in the Soviet Union.

Not yet. But in the same sentence where you try to evade the issue you still acknowledge those "worrying trends". That at least shows you have a remnant of intellectual honesty. What you lack, however, is historical knowledge and understanding, and the ability (or more probably, simply the willingness) to connect the dots of the data right before your eyes.

I clearly stated we were seeing actions "beginning" to mirror the Stalinist template. There are a lot of stages to those strategies which come well before the gulags and shooting people, and some of those ARE being implemented right now, such as legislation being introduced giving the Attorney General discretion to classify "dissenters", such as gun-rights advocates, Tea Party attendees, abortion or tax protesters, "radical" right-wing bloggers, etc. as "terrorists". Our mainstream media has already been co-opted and subdued (most of them willingly, I grant you) and is essentially functioning as a State-Run Media.

Those are just a few examples. There are many others, across a wide spectrum of issues, and these things are being documented and discussed on FR right now. The situation facing this nation and its people right now is well beyond the "worrying trends" stage you so blithely try to dismiss.

The point I made is not "bull". It is fact. It is reality. And, it is happening right now. You can ignore this developing reality if you choose, but there will come a time when that reality will not ignore you...

292 posted on 07/10/2009 9:02:38 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: tarheelswamprat
That at least shows you have a remnant of intellectual honesty.

No, it shows that I'm not a wacko. If you think we're living in another Cambodia or the Soviet Union, you're delusional. I wouldn't be posting here if I wasn't concerned about the way things are going, but I'm not afraid of being stuck in jail for voting Republican or for that matter, posting on Free Republic. I'll go further than that and say that Obama isn't to blame for all of the bad precedents that are being set and the current political/economic situation. His predecessor gets much of the blame for that.
293 posted on 07/10/2009 9:39:50 PM PDT by dr_who
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