re: #24 Dark_Falcon

re: #14 Gus 802

Republicans are going to send you to FEMA camps by way of the NDAA and SOPA! Run for the hills with massive butthurt and scariness!

Bunch of drama queens, like teabaggers in that way. They both want to imagine they’re brave truth-tellers, under threat from a fascist police state. If you dropped them into Tahir Square in Cairo and they had to face the Egyptian police (who, unlike the NYPD, really do practice Fascist Policing), the drama queens would piss their pants and cry for their mothers.

Actually, DF, I believe that beyond a certain point the descent into a police state is faster and easier than we can readily imagine from where we are: the slippery slope steepens and becomes a drop-off.

Not that I needed reminding, but googling in response to SFZ’s Akhmatova quote in the previous thread reminded me that I am no defiant teller of truth to Grand Inquisitors. That is why I am suspicious of shifts and concentrations of power, especially when they are created hastily without clarity and due diligence.

In the previous paragraph, I deliberately did not restrict the phrase “shifts and concentrations of power” to government power.