[IP] Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When
They Think We Aren't Listening
From:    "Dewayne Hendricks" <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date:    Tue, July 17, 2007 3:55 pm
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Ken DiPietro.  I agree with Ken.
This is worth reading, no matter your political views.  DLH]

From: Ken DiPietro <ken.dipietro@advantaq.com>
Date: July 17, 2007 12:33:29 PM PDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: Be afraid, be VERY AFRAID.

Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't
Listening
By Johann Hari, Independent UK
July 17, 2007


I am standing waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean, both chilling and
burning, indulging in the polite chit-chat beloved by vacationing
Americans. A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the
rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. "Is he your only
child?" I ask. "Yes," she says. "Do you have a child back in
England?" she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. "You'd better
start," she says. "The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the
whole of Europe."

I am getting used to these moments - when gentle holiday geniality
bleeds into? what? I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty,
scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils
of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When
I hear her say, " Of course, we need to execute some of these
people," I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers
through the sand lazily. "A few of these prominent liberals who are
trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of
these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if
you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll
get." She squints at the sun and smiles. " Then things'll change."
[snip]

The original story, (well worth the read) is located here:
<http://www.alternet.org/story/57001/>

Good God, I have come to the realization that I have more to fear
from my own countrymen than the terrorists.




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