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Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:00 AM

A genuine political sea change?

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  • Saturday, April 28, 2007 07:16 AM

    I hope you're right

    I can see the changes you speak of. And they're so positive.

    But deep inside me I have this fear that the Thug Party will invent an incident and then declare that because of it 2008 elections will be postponed as Dumb Leader leads us to his form of victory.

    Halliburton crews will soon be around *after the incodent) to empty our wallets and bank accounts so that ALL money (not just the current vast bulk) is spent by those who deserve it and know how to spend it while killing dissenters.

    Supreme court justice Robert Jackson wrote many, many brilliant opinions and essays. The lines the Thugs don't get is: "Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard." from West virginia Bd of ed v Barnette in 1943.

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