L. Coyote brings up a chilling point in a post

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here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1687847&mesg_id=1697616

The premise is whether the general strike was called by legitimate org or individual or could it have been called by bin laden or even the criminal cabal for other, assumably more sinister, purposes?

Then it occured to me that he has a point. What if the strike and corresponding march on DC is the plan of a more sinister entity? Can you imagine a missile or bomb or aircraft crashing onto The Mall, the White House and/or the Capitol (which the initial attack missed)?

A most chilling thought.

Do I need to loosen the strap on my tinfoil hat?

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1. Anyone can call a national strike. Hell, I'll bet every day in America...

...someone is calling for a national strike. A national strike is defined not by who called it but by who participates in it.

  To imply that there should be a pedigree required to determine if a national strike is legitimate (because that's what we're talking about here) is grossly absurd.

  And what if Osama bin Laden calls for a national strike on 9/11? What of it?

  Because following that line of thinking any strike may be undermined by the implication that (pick your favorite nefarious figure or organization) was behind it.

  Sounds like another tool to remove the power from the people.

PB

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7. I personally call for a national strike almost every day

Each morning, I stand atop my desk and shout, "IS TODAY THE DAY, FELLOW AMERICANS? IS TODAY THE DAY WE RISE UP AND REALLY MAKE THE BUGGERS' EYES WATER??!!??" Usually, it's accompanied by naught but a few tired yawns from my coworkers so I sit back down and get to work.

But just you wait! One day....one day...!

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8. ROFL!

:rofl: Always good to see your posts, Harry!

PB

[Wiley50]

2. That Thought has crossed my mind as well

Nice way to get rid of your most dedicated dissenters

and congress as well

and bring on martial law


Keep your eyes on Cheney's whereabouts

[bigtree]

3. fear

not

[damntexdem]

4. No: (1) Remove hat. (2) Remove tin from hat. (3) Leave hat off head.

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5. Yeah, you're right. And no one was stupid enough to ever

think that terrorists, homegrown or otherwise, could ever think of pushing a couple of heavy jets through a couple of skyscrapers either.

[OzarkDem]

6. No safety risk from a national strike

How does having millions of people stay home from work and not shop make us more vulnerable to terrorist attack. If anything it makes us safer.

Also,there are demonstrations w/ large groups of people in DC every week.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Is anyone advocating that armed forces go on strike?

Or first responders? Or emergency officials?

The only thing I fear is that the federal government is led by Chimpy and his cronies.

The same people who brought us grounded NATO defense planes on 9/11.

[L. Coyote]

10. Or what if the general strike is a way of deflating the Sept. 11 action.

Which came first? Which has identifiable leaders? Which masks its identity?

Perhaps the best question: Which is most important?

I had a thought when Bush praised Gonzolies. I wondered, How do
we deal with a political world when it is premised on make believe?

Everyone knows the facts, and there is Bush, making believe the facts are non-existent.
Likewise with Karl Rove and the Sunday talk shows. What subpoenas? What scandals? No mention of reality.

Politics is an upside-down world. I've worked in campaigns,
I've seen the felonies first hand, how they are/were financed, etc.

Anyway, I penned this in response to Bush and his Gonzo talk.
And I must say, Watch out for the Blemmings (blog lemmings)!

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"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" or "Up is Down and Down is Up"

INTRO:

"Gonzo"? "Gonzo journalism" refers to when an author cannot remove himself from the subject he
investigates, often referring to a style of writing a story as perceived in the moment in the mind of the writer.
Hunter Thompson believed objectivity in journalism was pure myth.

When Boston Globe reporter Bill Cardoso read Hunter Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" he proclaimed
"That is pure Gonzo!" Cardoso used the South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after a drinking marathon.

"Gonzolies" is the English neologism describing the last man standing after a lying match.

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"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" is a tale with twisted logic epitomizing the genre of nonsense literature. Gonzolies is just one of the characters in the fairy tale of current American politics. The Republican Party has fallen down a rabbit-hole into an hallucinatory realm populated by grotesque misstatements from wild, anthropomorphic creatures like Talking Point Cards, a rabbit-hole where beliefs transcend reality.

Gonzolies, a bored attorney looking for an adventure, starts a journey at Folly Bridge near Crawford, Texas, and ends up years later in the village of Gods Town. Gonzolies takes interest in a passing, ghostly super hero, a white knight muttering "Oh dear! Oh God! The Commies are coming!" He follows the knight down a deficit hole, and finds himself in a dreamlike world of magical beliefs where Gonzolies and R, the now aging super hero, grow to gigantic size.

Eventually Gonzolies joins Mad-Hater and his boss, March-to-War at a never-ending tea party of deficit spending, they go to a distant seashore and meet Mock Truth, and finally attend the Trial of "Critical Reason," the sole non-grotesque character in their adventure. Critical Reason has been accused of "disturbing truths." While Gonzolies prosecutes Critical Reason, he shrinks to a fraction of his inflated height, and the dream ends. Gonzolies wakes up at the picnic in Crawford, Texas.

Nonetheless, Gonzolies soon realizes that in Crawford up is still down and down is still up, and his new super hero, W, is enraptured by his own hallucinatory realm populated by wild, grotesque misstatements and talking points. Just when diminitive Gonzolies realizes the dream has not actually ended, he awakens again, and he realizes he was still at a lying contest and he was not the last man standing.

This time he has awakened in American politics, on the far side of Folly Bridge in Gods Town, where up is still down and down is up, and the lying contest goes on as W praises Gonzolies. Gonzolies wonders, "Am I still dreaming. How can I know if up is down and down is up?" He also wonders, "Am I still standing? Am I really Gonzolies, or is all this still just a dream in Ronderland?"

[L. Coyote]

11. I just asked WHO is calling for a general strike. We know it won't happen/

But, I got no answer, so I inquired further.
That led to a Republican National Committee contributor's name.

So I asked more questions. One question was, How do you know it isn't Osama calling
the strike. I was just trying to emphasize a point, We don't know who this is!