Quote Originally Posted by Button Basher
It's all pretty depressing but surely it'll never happen. I honestly can't imagine more then half the country agreeing to this. If it were forced upon the public, think of the outcry.

I'm struggling to find the religious reference myself.
that's why we're not a democracy, we're a republic. we've been turned into a democracy though.

if 51% of people said all black people should be slaves and it happens...that's a democracy. in a republic, that can't happen. if 99% of people said black people should be slaves, it couldn't happen.

it's sad that people think the solution to all their problems is in a pill they have to take for the rest of their life.

i would like to think there would be a huge outcry, but that's the nature of tyranny and propaganda...

i went to the holocaust museum in houston yesterday, and the whole time i was thinking, what stopped all the people on the trains from just rushing the guards. 200 SS officers forced over 300K jews out of a town to be murdered...how on earth could they let that happen?



How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the stair, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? -the organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers- and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn