Reply #16: Don't ya know, the Betrayus Congress opposes free speech, and anybody who is

[Peace Patriot]

disobedient's gonna get tazered, caged, strip-searched, waterboarded, "piled," shackled, isolated, tried by 'military commissions' or simply forgotten, and (we are not far from) zipped up in a body bag and dumped into landfill.

This is the hysterical stage of fascism, where the thieves and ghouls start panicking, and their yippy little partydogs (whether D or R, it doesn't matter) start foaming at the mouth and biting the honest, truthful and loyal folks among the citizenry who see through the imperial delusions, and will not be silenced.

A moment of truth for Colombia U. Do we engage in dialogue with leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who have done us no harm, other than calling us asshats, and whom WE have harmed, immeasurably, by destroying their neighbor state, and forcing them to live under the constant threat of nuclear attack, and by destroying their democracy, in the first place--in 1954--and inflicting them with 25 years of torture and brutal oppression under the horrible Shah of Iran? Do we try to heal these wounds by at least listening? Do we seek peace with those whom we have made afraid? Who are we, as a people, anyway? What do we stand for? It's time we face this question like adults, and make up our minds: are we going to permit these fascist gangs and global corporate predator mafias to continue terrorizing us, or are we going to fulfill our potential as the greatest experiment in democracy in the history of the human race?

It does not look good for us, at the moment--although I would never underestimate the American people and their devotion to fairness, the rule of law, peacefulness and democracy. It is a very strong people, indeed, who have resisted the relentless, 24/7 warmongering and fascist propaganda they have been subjected to, over the last seven years, and have ended up with a whopping, epochal SEVENTY PERCENT opposition to unjust war.

Do we talk? Do we listen? Do we seek reasonable agreements and a peaceful world? Or do we let our fascist overlords and their lapdogs nuke 'em back to the stone age?

That is the issue before Colombia, one of our better universities. And if not even they can answer in the positive, on the most fundamental condition of democracy--free speech--it may too late for us to grow up.