Fellow Bear-Flagger Tonecluster reminds us what it’s all about. As the Big Lies are systematically pounded into the heads of the unwary, so it continuously should be with the Big Truths.
I'm told that the worst thing to happen to freedom is George Bush. I'm told that I am not free in America anymore. I'm told that Bush is a Nazi; a fascist; a tyrannical despot; a dictator.[SNIP]
…I have a photo of [my] two great-uncles, probably from around 1919. They're in their young 20s, but look much older. They're thin. Emaciated, haven't-eaten-much-in-months thin. They're leaning on the new gravestone of their sister. It's just after WWI, and sometime just after or during the Russian civil war. They'd been marched at gunpoint to serve in the Czar's army, were captured by Germans, spent time in a POW camp, and released back to Russia where they found their sister and mother killed.
Now, lets see.. when I was 18, no one marched me at gunpoint to serve in the Army and the government didn't kill my sister. Funny-odd kind of tyranny we have here, huh?
I have another cousin, on the other side of the family, with a nasty little tattoo on one arm; a serial number in nice Germanic handwriting he got when he was about 8. See, some Germans who were Nazis - I mean real honest-to-goodness Nazis, the real authentic no-hyperbole-required kind - gave his whole family each a free tattoo and sent them all off to summer camp. Not that they had a choice, mind you, as the Reich didn't have much of a 2nd amendment and besides it was a, you know, a dictatorship. [SNIP]
Now, lets see: when I was 8, my siblings and I spent summers running around Lake Michigan beaches and the only tyranny was the feeling we got when school started again in the Autumn. Weird kind of tyranny we live in, innit? And now? My nephew and nieces? They play soccer and baseball and Playstation all summer. Say, what kind of tyranny are they running here anyway??
Got another relative, from way back, who had to run like hell from his home and traveled through Greece and Shanghai before he was chased outta there and ended up in America. What was he, you ask.. a criminal? Why, yes he was. His crime of course was that he was a Jew.There's more....
Unclear on the concept™ of fascism are those who equate the War on *Terrorists* with the fascism that terrorists of this day would impose, were they to win. Beware of the Big Lie that you’ve done something to invite terror. The reasons seem different, but the game's the same. It’s your parents and their parents and theirs and so on that have invited terror: they’ve allowed you to be.
