[lbo-talk] Canada (was Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan --Killer, Coward, Conman

[dano]

At 12:35 PM -0500 6/12/04, Carrol Cox wrote:
>snit snat wrote:
>>
>>  At 06:27 PM 6/10/2004, Jon Johanning wrote:
>>
>>  >And I hate moving more
>>  >than just about anything else. I'd rather just stay put -- until they come
>>  >to throw me into the cattle car, for my last trip (just kidding -- I'm not
>>  >a "conspiracy theorist").
>>
>>  you don't live in the limpdick. :(
>>
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>>  As soon as I can, I'm outta here and I'm going to hit everyone up as part
>>  of my job search network. Keep an eye out for me! :)
>
>Pish! I seldom agree with Jon, but he speaks for me here.
>
>And it is not 1932. The U.S. is not Germany (though from the perspective
>of the rest of the world it's been worse than Germany for several
>decades now). The U.S. capitalist class simply doesn't need and in fact
>would suffer from a coup.

ISTR that two years ago the fervor was at such a pitch that many 
people who were not of the right wing were literally afraid to speak 
in public, much less speak out in a public forum. If things go bad in 
the polls or in the war we could get a return of the locked-down 
posture that created that. Or worse.
Just thinking about the next earthquake...