Palin’s Nightmare By Scott Horton

[DogPoundPup]

In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the crowd that an Obama presidency would present the specter of a socialist state in which fundamental American freedoms are undermined.

Does Sarah mean a state:

* That snatches its victims off the street, denies them all form of legal process and whisks them away to secret “blacksites” where they can be tortured using all the techniques described in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon?
* That arrests and prosecutes its political adversaries for imaginary crimes so as to eliminate them from the running in election cycles in which they could do some damage?
* That destroys the careers of professional military men because they got promotions under a prior regime and therefore considers them disloyal?
* That believes it can detain and hold its enemies forever without any charges or any evidence against them, denying them access to courts to prove their innocence?
* That constantly manipulates the population’s fear whenever its public popularity slips and elections begin to approach?
* That believes that it can make no errors, and that those who point to its errors are traitors?

Read more at http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761

[nilram]

1. no, no, she means a state

where the purchase of a lethal weapon might take a day or two longer while a background check is performed on the buyer. That other stuff isn't a problem -- after all, only one amendment matters.

[IsItJustMe]

2. K&R

Little do we know just how much freedom we have lost in the last 8 years.

[mod mom]

3. Scott Horton rocks!

He is a national treasure-imho

[FlyingSquirrel]

4. Up to the sky!

[Lugnut]

5. K&R n/t