Paranoia Runs Deep, Into Your Mind It Will Creep...

I found this really amusing paranoid rambling on DemocratUnderground.com. Yes I admit, I go there for a laugh every now and then. I have never seen a more wretched hive of hatred, paranoia, and ignorance anywhere on the internet except maybe at whatreallyhappened.com, a true "tin-hat" community. This was posted by one of the denizens of that hive named "bvar22"

Anyway I took it upon myself to respond to each item in the list. The farther I got into this excercise the more absurd I felt responding to it, but I persevered, and here is the result:

The Republicans have been In Charge of America for 5 years. Are we beginning to look like a Fascist State?

*Demanding Party Loyalty above National Security (Plame Outing and Coverup)

National Security has never been put at risk in the “Plame outing” and there has been no “coverup.

*Military “PURGED” of commanders loyal to the Country and not the Party

There have been no “purges” of commanders in the military

*Using the Military to “POLICE” inside own borders

There have been calls for “policing” by the National Guard, but those have been primarily made by those on the Left. We have been repeatedly told by the Left that the National Guard are not the “military"

*Whitewashes and Cover Ups masquerading as Governmental Investigations

What, because the facts don’t match the paranoid delusions of people like you?

*Secret Prisons where people are "disappeared"

Your missing the key factor, our “secret prisons” intern foreign prisoners not our citizens which is the most important implication about “secret prisons”

*Dismantling of Individual Protections from Government

Finally something with which I agree, to an extent

*Torture as a National Policy

?? Oh well, I'll bite. “Torture” is not and has never been stated as a “National Policy” and that which has been being described as “torture” is not torture

*Police State Powers Increasing

Police state? What Kool-aid have you been drinking

*One Party Government (No Effective Opposition Party)

Just because you have offered no ideals or candidates worthy of the American voters trust and for that reason can not win an election, it is not a sign of “fascism” it is a sign of ineptitude

*Absurd (OBSCENE) and expanding Military Budgets

By whose standards? As a percentage of GNP it is not even close to a traditional wartime budget. You Liberals really need to learn to check the facts before making inane statements

*Dismantling of Humanitarian Programs to pay for Military

More money as a percentage of GNP is being spent on “humanitarian” programs than in the Clinton administration

*Restricting access to information about government

What, no leaks to a press in pursuit of an anti-American agenda?

*Restricting access to information contradicting Republican Party ideals (birth control).

There is no restriction of access to information about birth control, simply a refusal to use tax-payer money to fund such propaganda

*Rewriting (forging) scientific data to support Republican Party ideals

Your right, but then Kyoto was a stupid idea anyway

*State Owned Media

You mean like the extremely Left-wing NPR and CPB/PBS

*Persecution of Dissent

Where? When? Examples please.

*HyperNationalism masquerading as Patriotism

Patriotism IS Hypernationalism, and there is nothing wrong with it.

*Emerging SMALL Class of POWERFUL ELITES

You mean unlike the “good old days” of Kennedy's "Camelot?"

*Bogus and unverifiable elections

Truly laughable, but I do agree in the need for a printed backup

*Private Police and Security Forces not accountable to the Public.

Where? When? Examples please.

*Republican Party Secret Police to screen at Bush* appearances

????????

*NO Civilian Control and Oversight of Military

They are scrutinized at every turn

*Highest percentage imprisoned in Western World

Large number of criminals

*Potemkin Villages for the Press and Red Cross (Iraq and Guantanamo)

Potemkin Villeges? In what way? The two cited are real and mis-represent nothing

*Rampant Historical Revisionism

You mean of the sort that you are engaging in right now?

*Privileges and Access for Republican Party Members Only

This is getting ridiculous now...Where? When? Examples please. To what, the Lincoln bedroom?

*Ruling by Executive Order

Examples please.

*Judiciary controlled by Executive Branch

Can you say "Midnight Judges?" Only in your deluded mind

*Legislative Organs controlled by Executive Branch

Organs, so now the Government has organs? Show me how this differs from any previous time in history.

*Power Consolidated and Concentrated in One Person

Only in your deluded mind

*Government Officials WARNING to be careful what we say

What? You mean like “loose lips sink ships?”

*Controlled and Scripted PUBLIC appearances of Republican Party Officials

Only in your deluded mind (need to add PARANOID)

*Government encouraging citizens to spy on each other

You really are quite stupid if you don’t know the difference between maintaining awareness of your surroundings and suspicious behavior, and encouraging citizens to spy on each other, only Extreme Left-wing governments do that, you know socialists?

*Secret files on law-abiding citizens

Once again, signs of the Patriot act not acceptable but neither was Hillary's filegate

*Manufactured phony State Heroes (Tillman, Lynch)

Not to mention John Kerry and Al Gore

*State Medals awarded by Cronyism and Republican Party Loyalty, not merit

Huh???

*Governmental business cloaked I secrecy.

You mean it never has been before?

*Government “contracts” awarded in secret to Party Members and Cronies

Bad, but business as usual in America, nothing new here

*Odor of Arrogance and Contempt from Republican Party Officials

Your opinion here, nothing factual

Quite an extensive list isn't it. Not very significant, just long. I would welcome debate with this individual, but the vast majority of these "examples" are so vague that they are basically meaningless. They are intended to sound ominous, but in truth contain little of substance. In fact, as is common when dealing with these kind of light weight paranoic ramblings, I kind of got bored with it all. However, If you feel up to it and want to engage in a debate about some of these, feel free, I never duck a fight. If you know bvar22, give him some Prozac and lithium and let him know I'm praying for his recovery.

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