Hmm, I bet some of you are crazy enough to find this Kos diary scenario plausible
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Over at the Daily Kos, America's premiere liberal blog/online mental asylum, there is a recommended diary by someone named slw0606 -- recommended -- so this is the best of the best over at the Daily Kos, about how Bush is going to turn America into a dictatorship rather than leave power in 2008.
Here are some of Ker-a-zY highlights,
"I have never in my 50 years of life been more frightened then I am now. I have seen the arrogance of this White House and the massive damage done to our country. But the Katrina-size storm clouds are gathering folks. If we do not wake up now and flood Congress to impeach the President and Vice President, one year from now, Daily Kos may be banned and Markos himself may be disappeared, in a federal prison somewhere.
Even as I write these words I feel like a wild-eyed nutcase. If it were not for the OH SO REAL danger this country faces in the next 15 months or so as the people in power see their own doom and are determined to prevent their expulsion from power by suspending next year's elections and declaring martial law WHEN the next 9/11 comes or events that can be construed as a national emergency to "justify" such actions, I would be holding my tongue and crossing my fingers.
I know that the readers on Daily Kos are all too aware of the evil intent of the Bush regime, but I fear even they, even you, are not alarmed enough. I fear you, like me until now, are hoping we can get through the next 15 months or so and throw the bums out in the 2008 election and hope that we avoid war with Iran and another 9/11.
If we cross our fingers hard enough and hold our breath (and close our eyes, and tap our ruby slippers together) maybe we'll wake up to a beautiful new dawn January 20, 2009. Maybe even Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny will help elect a Democratic White House and stronger Democratic Congress.
What will it take to wake US up, let alone the average out-of-touch-with-reality American? What will it take? I thought about martial law the other day and I never thought I would actually hope illegal militias in the United States would be our final hope against a real dictatorship - that Americans will rise up with arms against a dictatorial government.
But I fear even that hope is farfetched. Remember 9/11? Remember how most Americans were rah-rah patriotic (including me) and flying flags everywhere and supporting the President at 90% approval (including me)? Now I don't know how and if we will have a disaster equal in casualties to 9/11 or worse, but even a series of London type bombings killing "only" a few dozen Americans may be all that is needed to institute martial law and cause most Americans, in fear, to rally around a President who warned them Al Quada was after us and that he will protect us with extraordinary means. He will say "these measures" are now needed to ensure no further attacks are done.
....This is deadly serious folks. This is not just another diary. We ignore this threat at our own peril. I would suggest even I in writing articles like this and the many writers at Daily Kos are personally at risk of being arrested in a future dictatorial United States. The government will use these writings as an excuse to put us away.
....I say WAKE UP Daily Kos!! If the people at Daily Kos cannot take this seriously and try and do something about it, then the United States, as a free country IS doomed. Enjoy your freedom to read and write at such sites as Daily Kos, because that freedom will be taken away WHEN Bush declares martial law.
....That is why I write this article on Daily Kos. I hope enough people will read this and be agitated enough to really raise this issue NON-STOP. We need to write articles daily on this danger. I know members of Congress read Daily Kos. I know there is a Daily Kos convention coming up with people like Senator Clinton coming."
Here's a question: if he thinks that Bush is going to declare martial law and become a dictator, why in the world does he think that Bush would allow Congress to impeach him? Does that make any sense at all? That he imagines Bush sitting in the Oval Office, evilly wringing his hands, mumbling darkly to himself, "I will turn the United States into my own personal banana republic. No more elections will be allowed! All liberals will be sent to prison camps! Massachusetts will be sold to Exxon and Haliburton to be used as a dumping ground for oil waste/target range, and nothing can stop me! Muhuhhahahahahahahahahaha! Oh wait, unless the Democrats impeach me. Then, I'll have to give up all my evil plans!"
The very fact that the Kossacks have made this into a recommended diary shows that,
#1) The average Kossack isn't very bright.
#2) The average Kossack is paranoid to the point of being mentally ill.
#3) They hate and despise their fellow Americans whom they look at as little more than "sheeple" who'd happily go along with a dictatorship.
PS: As the nutball mentioned in his post, Hillary Clinton is associating herself with this sort of insane paranoia by going to the Kos convention, so shouldn't a reporter ask her if she agrees with her pals at Kos that Bush may place America under martial law, start arresting liberal congressmen and bloggers, and become a dictator? It seems like a fair question to me.
From Right Wing News
Does anyone fear Al Qaeda? or is Bush the only evil one out there. Everything is just going to be peachy pie when a Democrat occupies the White House, right? If that will defeat terrorism, I'd like to recommend Bush resign now, and let one of these saintly Democrats take office. Then we can start cheering for the terrorists.
AI
