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Right after the election I called my sister in DC asking if I could come down for inauguration, I just wasn’t sure on which side of the barricades I would be. I think I know now. Maybe we could hit the Foggy Bottom farmers’ market and have an Aflingem or Duvel (it’s award-winning.)
I’ve had this recurrent waking nightmare where if I wanted a permanent authoritarian shift Barack Obama would be the perfect vessel for my program.
Torture is my most important issue, more than the economy, because of torture's cancerous effect on democracy, even though I work in manufacturing and my job is directly in the line of fire. US torture occurs in many other places than Guantanamo, in addition to outsourced torture.
I fear johntfrazer has it right, uh, I mean correct.
