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Yes, freedom's on the march, and if you listen carefully, you can hear the jackboots from here. I suppose the cross of Jesus is going on before, too...
Some people call it a swagger; I just call it goosesteppin'.
If you remember Orwell's "1984", the destruction of language was the major goal of the government; if you can take away the words, the ideas go with them. Once you get people cozying up to irrationalities like this, it's a short sashay down the primrose path to killing out of love.
"Let Freedom Reign" is a fave too; not only is it an idiotic misquote of "from every mountaintop, let freedom RING", it's a deeply ugly oxymoron: to reign is to rule with unquestioned and kingly authority, and how "freedom" maintains this tyranny is beyond me. What's most scary is that an idiotic statement like this, passed from Fearless Leader to Condi while at a big meeting in Turkey, passes muster to such a degree that signs were printed up for the great New York Hatefest.
Freedom is on the march; it will crush and subjugate anything in its way. It's first victim is one's rationality.
People who can only express thoughts in terms of violence and domination are thugs; mercifully, they don't sense how ugly their blustering comes off.
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