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Conservative Plan to Execute Liberals
The last couple of weeks, I’ve been going back over and over to one article: “Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening,” by Johann Hari from the Independent UK (via Alternet) from July 17, 2007.
I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, “Of course, we need to execute some of these people,” I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. “A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country,” she says. “Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that’s what you’ll get.” She squints at the sun and smiles. “Then things’ll change.”
Wha?
Is this really how they think? I want to think these people are exceptional. I want to, but I don’t. Could they pull the trigger, or are they just spewing the same old mindless empty words?
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