You all know I hate doing this

[Mythsaje]

but I feel like I HAVE to do it when something I've written seems to hit the right note and I just have to share it with everyone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1775921&mesg_id=1775921

Please check it out.

Nominate it if you like it.

People NEED to read this. Especially here and now.

[readmoreoften]

1. I think we need to put it in context.

We're all flipping out over the Great DU Pitbull Wars when they just passed legislation to herd us into gulags. This shit might pop off your internet and kick down your front door if you're not careful. This isn't irony anymore. We're not delineating a tread that could culminate in fascist disappearances. We're already there. Only most of us are 3rd generation and we don't have "Abu" in front of our last names so we think we're safe. Are you comfortable in Code Orange? Do you think we'll never reach Code Red?

It won't be all of us. It might only be 5% of us. It might only be 2% of us. It might only be 1% of us. But 1% of DU is 900 people that we've talked to personally. It certainly won't happen next week. It may not happen next year. It might not happen for five years. But we are MOVING IN THE DIRECTION where it will happen to US. And it is already happening to others in our name. Remember the story about the 70 year old Albanian man forced to wear a buttplug and diapers at the hands of US soldiers in an Eastern European gulag? Think he's the only one?

We may not be the next in line. We may be at the end of that line. But we're in that line.

[Mnemosyne]

2. K and R! n/t