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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:12 PM
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Complete this sentence: When _______ happens, Americans
will have had enough. We now have

1. Marines doing maneuvers in Toledo

2. DoJ official saying, on the record, that it's OK for Smirk to kill "terror suspects" in the US

3. Wiretaps issued on 10's of 1000's of "terror suspects", almost all of whom are innocent(put 2 and 3 together!!)

4. Halliburton building concentration camps

5. A mother being arrested at the SOTU for wearing a t-shirt that * didn't like

6. Verification that * lied about the threat posed by Iraq before the war

7. * repeating the same lies about Iran

Given all these, at what point do you think We The People will be able to stop this from becoming Nazi Germany? I am reading "They Thought They Were Free", and to a man the subjects of that book were OK with everything that Hitler did except lose the war. In fact, * has lost the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan, yet still has 43% on his side. So fill in the blank amid this background.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:16 PM
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1. Since all of these have already happened, i guess your list is missing
something!
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:17 PM
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3. Right - you're supposed to list what will be the
thing that actually moves the people to action. None of these have.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:19 PM
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5. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.....
The public will never know when the "trigger" event happens.
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kittynboi Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:16 PM
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2. I wonder if its so simple...
""Given all these, at what point do you think We The People will be able to stop this from becoming Nazi Germany? I am reading "They Thought They Were Free", and to a man the subjects of that book were OK with everything that Hitler did except lose the war. In fact, * has lost the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan, yet still has 43% on his side. So fill in the blank amid this background.""

Well, look at it like this;

Support for the iraq war is low, yet we are still there.

Support for NSA wiretaps are low, yet they will most likely be allowed to continue.

I think that, at this point, many Americans ARE tired of this and are fed up. But the media and the politicians are NOT doing anything about it. As I asked in another thread, how can DEmocrats be worried about looking weak on defense to americans for opposing the nsa wiretaps, if most Americans oppose the wiretaps already? It seems to me that the democrats and the media are more concerned with what the xian taliban, the right wing pundits, and the GOP think of them than they are with what the american people think.

I really do think when they saw: "We dont want to appear weak on defense", they don't mean appearing weak to americans in general, they mean appearing weak to the GOP. Thats where their loyalties seem to lie these days.
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:19 PM
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4. How about...
When Bush takes their guns...
When Gas is $5.00 a gallon...
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:21 PM
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6. These might do it, but even that I'm not sure about anymore. n/t
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NoFederales Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 04:10 PM
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19. He'll ask for voluntarily giving up guns first to test the reaction--if
that ever comes to pass, be prepared.

NoFederales
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Angry Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:24 PM
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7. All the TV stations go off the air
Then maybe Amerika can be overthrown and democracy restored.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:30 PM
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8. What if everything except for propaganda outlets went off?
Suppose there were nothing on the air except for MSRNC, ConNN, Fox "News", and hate radio. Could "middle-America" get by on a stright diet of propaganda?
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:47 PM
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11. as long as we have
Lost, Desperate Housewives, Survivor MCMXLIV, and ET, the America will be okay.
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NoFederales Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 04:07 PM
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18. Actually, resistance moves like eliminating propaganda networks
sounds attractive, sure to get negative response.

NoFederales
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:35 PM
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9. 2000 was a coup
it's too late without a violent revolution
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 12:35 PM
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10. The draft is reinstated.
Like many people, BUsh supporters will wake up when their asses are in the fire. Or about to go into it.
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 03:35 PM
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15. Unfortunately, that would likely be rigged, like everything else
It's the new 'only-liberals-make-good-cannon-fodder' plan.
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NoFederales Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 04:12 PM
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20. Won't need a draft--we'll be killing each other and who knows what
others at home.

NoFederales
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 07:32 PM
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22. True, NoFed
civil war is a-comin', unless some serious realignment comes in DC very soon.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 01:00 PM
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12. When the TV stops working... (NT)
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 01:10 PM
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13. Bush could eat a live baby on TV, and no one would care.
Even a white, christian baby.
:)
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 02:23 PM
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14. Complete this sentence: When _______ happens . Ans. = "SHIT"
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drfresh Donating Member (424 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 03:47 PM
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16. When the president craps on the original Bill of Rights and wipes with
an American flag while simultaneously doing 30 lines of taxpayer-funded cocaine and murdering children on live television, maybe people will then have had enough. But after seeing this, 30% will still find him infallible.
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Dirty Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 04:02 PM
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17. When the economy goes belly up
Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 04:03 PM by Dirty Hippie
and middle America is seriously hurting.

We will only wake up when our pocketbooks are affected.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 04:25 PM
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21. Yep, Dow 5400 might do the trick
Short of that, it'll just be the endless carpet of bullshit.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-06-06 07:42 PM
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23. When they find out "American Idol" is rigged.
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