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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 09:47 AM
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Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
by Charles Sullivan | Nov 6 2007



It seems inexplicable that so many of the American people can be so dazed and confused, while moral degenerates ransack our nation, piss and defecate upon the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and brazenly loot the public domain, making a mockery of the rule of law and societal norms; whatever they may be.

Incredible lies are routinely passed as truth and the world as we know it is unraveling, as we prepare to invade and occupy yet another country, perhaps igniting World War Three. We go on with the insipid routine of our dull lives: we go shopping, and bombard our senses with mind numbing entertainment, telling ourselves that it--fascism--can't happen here, even as its poisoned blossoms unfold before our astonished eyes and fill our lungs with their noxious fumes.

We refuse to believe what we are seeing and we dismiss it as too preposterous to be real. We no longer wholly trust our own senses or follow our most innate instincts, failing to recognize that they are all that is true; all that allow us to survive the wretched madness that pursues us like rabid dogs, and relentlessly nips at our fleeing heels.

Increasing numbers of us move through this world with a sense of impending doom but we do not fully comprehend its origins or the breadth of the disaster it portends. We sense not only that something is wrong--something is terribly, irreconcilably, sickeningly, wrong. We do our utmost to repress those feelings, telling ourselves that our worst fears, our darkest nightmares, are irrational, unfounded phantoms of the imagination; so many ghosts lurking under our beds.

We have been programmed to believe that we are the greatest nation to ever emerge from the mists of history, that everything about us as a people is exceptional and exemplary. Despite a history of endless provocation and war and countless other forms of self mutilation, we claim that we are a peace loving people--god's own children, animated by divine stirrings.

But perhaps our state of confusion, our disorientation, and our shock at what the government is doing in our name--all of which seems to be occurring at the blinding speed of light--and our refusal to believe that which is so blatantly obvious to all but those who wear mental blindfolds, or the criminally insane, is a form of psychological shock and awe that has been deliberately imposed upon us not only by depraved politicians vying for wealth and power, but by our every societal institution.

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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 09:56 AM
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1. Damn, that is dark... (read the piece)
I woke up (actually, I haven't been to sleep) to read that?

I love smirkingchimp.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 10:03 AM
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3. I know, pretty depressing, isn't it. nt
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 10:00 AM
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2. Let me be the first to recommend
We need a little tough love if we are to survive this scourge.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 10:31 AM
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4. Wow. I think I need a drink.....
:cry:
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1620rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 11:48 AM
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6. It's later than we think...... eom
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 11:45 AM
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5. sadly, tragically, horrendously . . . the author is right . . . n/t
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