I've got to say that this is just really messed up.

[Guaranteed]

I just feel shame, sadness, powerlessness.

This thing hasn't even been done yet, but nasty people are going to make sure that it happens.

And then it'll be done, and there won't be any way to fix it.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Yep, that's the Zen of it all

ain't it?

[dchill]

2. Agreed.

[wellstone dem]

3. Thanks for giving voice to how I'm feeling

powerless and sad

[lapfog_1]

4. And sadly, some of the nasty people are here tonight.

[Maat]

5. I, too, am feeling powerless and sad (n/t).

[stillcool]

6. I am so angry right now...and it's all about me...

the emotional reaction is from inside...not from anything out there. And, it's the misfortune of life, it's pain, it's hurt, and it's everywhere. If ever there was a correlation between Hitler's Germany and Bush's America..for me, this is it. The rigid belief system, the inability to change one's perception...we are seriously fucked, if this is the humanity one observes on a democratic website.

[beam me up scottie]

7. "if this is the humanity one observes" we are indeed "seriously fucked"

I have had to listen to the freepers at work and on the local radio station getting their rocks off about this man's death for over two weeks.

I return to DU after an absence and find the same thing.

Apparently I haven't been gone long enough.

At least I know there are others on DU who oppose murder, regardless of who or what commits the act.

They are killing a man in our name.

And some of us are celebrating.

I wish I could believe I accidentally stumbled onto the wrong website.

[stillcool]

8. The squeaky wheel gets the grease...

and I have to...have to.. believe that their voices carry because of the shrill quality that shocks the senses. They do it so well.

[beam me up scottie]

9. A fellow "liberal" just told me that ALL gang members should be executed.

You want to know why?

"How else do we break the backs of gangs that have taken over and terrorized our neighborhoods, and made it impossible for us to enjoy our towns, cities, and neighborhoods without fear?

We let them know that merely BELONGING to a gang is sufficient for you to be put to death. Maybe they will think twice before joining one, then."



The disconnect is stunning.

Remember the riots that happened in France a few weeks ago?

With "liberal" attitudes like that, how long before it happens here?

Again.