Bedtime for Democracy
On Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 - the 66th anniversary of Kristallnacht - there were tanks on the streets of L.A. (link contains full movie clip - 6.8 Mb)
This was a peaceful protest like any other, and the state responded with the same audacious tactics commonly employed by dictators in third-world countries. Fucking tanks? Is this part of Governor Arnold's new No-Girlie-Men policy?
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
- Dante Alighieri
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
- Spiro T. Agnew
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
- Emma Goldman
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
- Abraham Lincoln
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
This was a peaceful protest like any other, and the state responded with the same audacious tactics commonly employed by dictators in third-world countries. Fucking tanks? Is this part of Governor Arnold's new No-Girlie-Men policy?
This story was not carried by CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, or any other government-sponsored media outlet.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
- Dante Alighieri
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
- Spiro T. Agnew
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
- Emma Goldman
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
- Abraham Lincoln
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche