I was sitting here doing my morning blog-run, and over at his place, John Hawkins had a post on some of the latest drivel from a leftist site called The Smirking Chimp...
If you still believe that dissent is the highest form of patriotism, there's probably a spot in Bush's gulags for you. And depending on where you live, most of your neighbors won't even notice nor care if you disappear....
America is fast moving itself into an authoritarian, militarist, imperial state, one that has more in common with Stalinist Soviet Union and Hitlerian Germany than with traditional American society.
Where's the irony? Well, of course, it lies in the fact that the people who actually subscribe to the belief system/worldview that allows them to believe this, also would like to see ever more strict gun control, and probably even the total disarmament of the American people -- thereby disabling the very mechanism that prohibits the advent of this so-called fascist society they're talking about, disabling the very mechanism that would make it a hell of a lot harder for any dissidents to be herded into cattle cars for the trip to these so-called "gulags" these morons are going on about. I have to wonder how many of them have ever read any Solzhenitsyn...this reminds me of what Jim Kenefick said over at Moorewatch one day, even more succinctly than myself (emphasis mine -- ed.)...
Hey Mikey, wanna know the number one reason Bush could never pull off what Hitler pulled off, you fucking moron?
WE HAVE GUNS, YOU IDIOT. STOP TRYING TO TAKE THEM FROM US, OR WE’LL FEED YOUR LYING, GUN-GRABBING ASS TO THE BUSH-STAPO YOU SAY IS COMING THE FIRST CHANCE WE GET.
When will the leftists figure that out? Probably about the time there are roses blooming in the Arctic Circle and icebergs floating in the Gulf of Mexico.
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