From: cbertsch	Date: August 11th, 2006 02:19 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Mais non! I am signed up as a Republican campaign volunteer in order to keep tabs on the party's doings. I'm as non-Republican as they come.

	From: cbertsch	Date: August 11th, 2006 02:17 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

It sure does seem that way. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but my ears are pricked up right now.

	From: xxxpunkxgrrlxxx	Date: August 11th, 2006 02:20 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

the fucking slimey republicans in our government actually view terrorism/possible terrorist attacks as a good thing for them, politically, so they can say, "ah, see? we foiled those terrorists!" and then call democrats weak on terrorism. etc.

	From: cbertsch	Date: August 11th, 2006 02:57 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

It's really hard to see a way out of the traps they lay. Now they're throwing the term "fascist" around in reference to the Islamic terrorists. Those terrorists are dreadful in every way, but they are explicitly anti-statist because religion comes first. It's the security-obsessed leaders in this country who use religious fundamentalism to advance their plans for maximum state power, though only for their cadre to use, who are the closest thing we have to fascism in the political sense.

	From: xxxpunkxgrrlxxx	Date: August 11th, 2006 09:43 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

you are exactly right.

	From: cbertsch	Date: August 11th, 2006 12:35 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Thanks. I'm a bit of a fascism junkie. Must be my German heritage. . .