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A blast from the past

In the old days, when the Soviet Union was still a going concern (and wasn't a dottering old dictatorship, losing vitality as the few remaining sons and daughters of the revolution died off), they would occasionally have great purges, where last weeks loyal defenders of the great socialist revolution™ were found guilty of some bogus crime against the state and Comrade Stalin after going up before a grand trial and weepily confessing their crimes (up to and including making the glaciers retreat and causing the extinction of the Siberian mammoth population.) The funny thing about these weepy confessions is that in many cases, the new enemies of the state would be dragged off to the torture chambers spitting fire and swearing to never buckle under to the forces of the state, and would, several weeks or months later, emerge as broken shells of their former selves, saying things like "Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line" and "To them I extend my heartfelt apologies."

Oh, wait, sorry, that was Senator Durbin's show trial appearance today.

I wonder what the Evil Party did? Did Karl pull Senator Durbin aside and tell him that his son would be assigned to do solo mine removal in Saddam City unless some tearful apology was forthcoming PDQ, or was it a traditional mob-style "Apologise or we'll kill you?"

The line I liked best out of the show trial was Mayor Daley of Chicago (showing the traditional Daley family style of having no fixed loyalties except to power) saying -- without laughing, even! -- "I think it’s a disgrace to say that any man or woman in the military would act like that."

That's pretty amazing. There are thousands of photos, thick stacks of documents, and the testimony of various men and women in the military saying that, yes, there are men and women in the US military who do act like that. But here comes the Quisling of the hour, cheerily repeating the propaganda from the fascists who control the United States and showing no concern over the teeny detail that he's transparently lying to G-d and everyone.

So now that we've got transparently rigged elections, the gulag, the personality cult of Dear Leader, the junta-style military uniforms, a military run by corrupt evil generals, and show trials, just what's left in the conversion of the United States from a mainly-functional republic into a military dictatorship?

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

W Tue Jun 21 23:26:37 2005
Arvin Hill Wed Jun 22 05:59:08 2005

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