>>If I can sneak out after curfew and avoid the helicopters and police dogs I hope to be able to make to the Canadian consulate to seek asylum in a more enlightened society where this kind of atrocity could never take place.
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>>Pray for me ...
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>You sound just like the people of the religious cult that inhabits most of the area out here in the Middle-of-Nowhere. They were big supporters of the Branch Davidians, are big John Birchers, and are constantly looking for UN spies..They are serious about it here..
I went to college in the 60s in Licking County, Ohio, whose congressman was John Ashbrook, the ranking R on HUAC. It was also the HQ of the local John Birch Society and there was a huge billboard I passed every day that said 'Save our Republic - Impeach Earl Warren ! ' <g>
I'm pretty conservative about a lot of stuff but the Birchers are always a good reminder not too take myself too seriously <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
