by rangerone314 » Thu 22 Oct 2009, 09:14:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'T')hat mass grave is in the good old USA. Mos, read James Waller's book, Becoming Evil. There is a dark streak in our nature and it is in all of us. All it takes are the right set of circumstances to summon our Darker Demons.

+1
Good book, if depressing.
Things like that and Jotopay's above is why we should not lay the groundwork for making genocide easier.
Lets try a 4-part thought experiment.
Part 1:
Imagine the # of lives that have probably been saved from terrorism by building up the internal security apparatus of the US (probably a few hundred, or a few thousand).
Part 2:
Compare that to the number killed by the internal security apparatus in Nazi Germany (a lot of which was virtually built from the ground up) - many millions.
Part 3:
Imagine how many more people probably would have been killed and how much more easily, if Nazi Germany in 1933 had started from the same point & level of technology where we are now.
Part 4:
Imagine things get as bad here economically etc like they were in Germany before 1933 and that people sucumb to the darker angels of their conscience.
An ideology is by definition not a search for TRUTH-but a search for PROOF that its point of view is right
Equals barter and negotiate-people with power just take
You cant defend freedom by eliminating it-unknown
Our elected reps should wear sponsor patches on their suits so we know who they represent-like Nascar-Roy