>>>>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..
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>>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>
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>>I'm pretty conservative about a lot of stuff but the Birchers are always a good reminder not too take myself too seriously <s>
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>You got that right. I used to get a kick out of some of the JB Society crap I'd see when I lived in MA - You'd get to hear broadcasts on the radio and everything. It was so paranoid it was funny!
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>Then I moved out here to the Middle-of-Nowhere where the largest part of this town belongs to a church that belongs to the Society of St. Pious (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_St._Pius_X) that thinks the Pope is a communist working for the UN. Scary bunch.
Cleveland has a local branch and a strong Opus Dei presence as well.
I really like fringe groups and read up on them a lot. There was a great book back in the 50s called "Pawns in the Game" by Wm Carr that was a Bible for those folks who thought the Birchers were Stalinist dupes <g> Very easy book to find in Central Ohio <g>
One of my favorite crazies has always been Lyndon Larouche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRoucheAnd he's still around. I hope he surfaces at some point in this Presidential year ( the Democratic Convention would be nice <s> ) Definitely worth a look. My dream is a debate between him, Ross Perot and a representative from the Scientologists.
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.
