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"If This Be Treason . . ."
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
"If This Be Treason . . ."
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Alas! it is delusion all;
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
-Lord Byron
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The polls show that 33 percent of the public still gives Dubya Bush a favourable approval rating. Who could these people be? Some of them, no doubt, are well-meaning dupes in the early stages of Alzheimers. But there is a hard core of latent fascism out there. Though they deviously misuse the idea to slander opposition, leftists are not entirely wrong to point out the dangers of authoritarian super-patriotism. Every country has them: people who believe that My country right or wrong is equivalent to The Leader right or wrong; who regard questioning the government as treason worthy of the direst punishment. Sometimes the type reaches a critical mass in society, as in Germany in the 1930's.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/wilson.cgi/If_This_Be_Treason.html?seemore=y
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04-30-2006, 07:18 PM
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