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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:11 AM
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Notice how "the Enemy" w always speaks of is becoming US?
More and more the neo cons are referring to us as appeasers of Osama and terrorism, more and more they are speaking as though liberals and anyone who opposes them are one in the same as the enemies of freedom.

Has anyone else noticed how paranoid I am?
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TAPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:14 AM
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1. Wear it with pride!
:tinfoilhat: I do!

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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:15 AM
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2. It's not being paranoid.......
if it's the truth. They ARE attempting to make terrorists and dissenters synonymous. It's up to us to make sure they're not successful in their ploy.
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focusfan Donating Member (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:16 AM
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3. I`m just like you
I wonder when did liberal become such a bad word
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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:20 AM
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4. A return of sorts... to the McCarthy era...
in which case, we'd be the "blue" menace...
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:25 AM
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5. As someone quoted to me recently
Just because we're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get us.

BushCo have been dividing Americans since Dimson took office. First they used religion. Then it was liberals who were poison. Over time, out of necessity (because they're THAT bad) it's become anyone who opposes them.

I don't know about anyone else, but the echoes of Hitler's consolidation of power get louder every day from where I'm standing. And as far as I'm concerned that analogy fits much better than BushCo's attempts to label the terrorists as Nazis.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:25 AM
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6. One of Rove's plans was to destroy the Democratic Party forever.
And if you look at the Patriot Act, Homeland Security powers, the lack ofsecurity at airports and ports and the extremely large amount of security at the White House, you will notice that all of this is to protect the White House from us, not us from the terrorists. They want the rich on their side to provide money and control the MSM and they want the middle class gone and everyone to be poor and afraid to they can run the country forever.

The big question is, why are the US citizens putting up with this.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 07:43 AM
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9. I'm with you on that.
"Security" has been about protecting the government FROM us, not about protecting us from anything or anybody.

Searches to get into federal (public) buildings, restrictions on what you can bring in there, impossible to call them where you could before.

"Everything changed" since 911 is true when it comes to a citizen's contact with the government.

The most extreme example I ran into is filing papers in the federal courthouse (bankruptcy court, no less, as if Al Qaeda would file bankruptcy papers or motions in a bankruptcy case as part of a terrorist attack). You had to put them in a box and they could move the box to them. In other words, they were not going to take papers from peoples' hands, in order to protect themselves.

And those who work for the government have gotten considerably more uppity and self important and unjust and willing to let their opinions color their decisions over and above the law.



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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:14 PM
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11. I'm really starting to hate that "everything changed since 9-11".
Actually everything changed since Jan 2001 when * took over. Not too many people noticed. 9-11 allowed them to move faster. Remember one of the first things * did was to not walk the last mile of the ceremony for the inauguration. Then he started closing down access to view the White House. The MSM said it was because he was a private person. Balderdash. He's a coward.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 06:29 AM
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7. If we WIN this Nov. will rush limbaugh sick them on us?
seriously, will it incite violence against us if we win?
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 07:39 AM
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8. We Always WERE The Enemy
Edited on Thu Sep-07-06 07:40 AM by Demeter
If you aren't a rich white male GOP, you by definition are against them, and therefore, the enemy.

See how easy it is?


Oh, and it helps to be Christian, a criminal, or both; but those are options.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 10:23 AM
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10. yes, but we will soon be seen as an enemy that must be destroyed
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 01:47 AM
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12. kik
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 05:09 AM
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13. THOUGHT CRIME!!!
Ok, now I have kicked and recommended all your threads. My job is complete. I can get in my coffin now. :boring:

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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:11 AM
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15. Oh no you don't crawl in your coffin....
...before saying "good morning"...

:hi:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 04:12 AM
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16. Bom dia!
:hi:
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:10 AM
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14. I have totally noticed this! And its not paranoia, its factually happenin
And guess who else did this in his speeches???

You guessed it....a failed artist from Austria.... :eyes:
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