We've arrived

It's clear now that we're in a fascist state, and the Dems aren't going to turn that around, especially if the president '09 is Clinton. And Obama would be a push-over for the corps elite.

I want to tell you about a conversation I had yesterday with my old friend Edith. Edith is 79, lives alone in a house she built herself back when she was 65. She's now mostly blind but still fends pretty well for herself. She came to America in the 50's from Austria. Edith was in her twenties and she was a wild sort, and she right off decided she'd go to Alaska and seek her fortune, which, in those days if you were a young woman, meant looking for a husband.

Edith did well for herself over the years, landing not one, but three well-off husbands. But it's where Edith came from that makes her the indomitable spirit she is. She was a teen during the Hitler years. She ran black market cigarettes back and forth across the border between Germany and Austria, courting death or arrest if caught. She was only sixteen. Eventually Hitler invaded Austria and rounded up Edith and other Austrians whom he labeled as racially sub-par and put them into forced labor camps. She described what that was like and I don't think an anorexic could exist on the watered down soup they were fed which on a good day had a hand full of flour thrown in and a turnip in season.

Now to the point of the story. Edith has a friend, Tom, who's maybe 70, who comes to visit now and then to help with projects that need a second pair of hands and two good eyes. Tom, whom I've met, isn't the brightest bulb on the tree. But he's smart enough to despise Bush. Tom likes to write letters to the editor and he sends them to a whole bunch of papers. In one of Tom's recent letters, he discussed why Bush is still in office after everything he's done. In fact, Tom wondered, why hasn't Bush been assassinated?

Not days after his letter was published, the FBI showed up at his door. Yup. The F #%*@*%# BI. They didn't arrest and disappear Tom for being a terrorist, but he did get a stern lecture. If Tom had been middle eastern looking instead of Irish, he would have been yanked out of his house never to be seen again, and Edith and Tom both know it.

I asked Edith if this reminded her of anything. She said she started seeing similarities with what is going on in her adopted country and Germany ten years ago. So there you have it. It's not all in our imagination any longer.

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There's no consideration of context or common sense - they just come a knocking...

It has ALWAYS been a bad idea to suggest assassinating ANY president. And the perception of a threat is in the eyes of law enforcement. Same thing would have happened had the subject of the letter been Clinton, Carter, Nixon, or anyone else who had the title of POTUS.

labor and death camps. He said the most nutritious part of the soup was at the bottom of the pot, so he would lineup early, gulp down scalding hot soup so he could try to sneak back in line for a second cup of the thicker soup. My friend said he had scars on his throat from the experience.

I didn't hear the story first hand, but I tend to believe it. And I can't wonder if we'll eventually be under the similar circumstances later if the BFEE and their partners in crime have their way. Edith seems like a really smart woman.