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Re: No Clemency from Arnold



On Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 06:30:27 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
>yes, but the CA GOP doesn't like him any more, so he will have a hard
>time. He needs someone to push for a constitutional amendment to allow
>him to become Prez (since he's foreign born) at a time when many
>GOPsters are feeling irate toward immigrants.

The point is that this is part of the constellation of irrational
violence that the rulers use to instill fear, maintain control,
inflate images of "tough" leaders, dampen democratic sentiment and
sympathy for others, etc.  There is a reason the U.S. is both the most
formally democratic and the most barbaric state on the planet.


Bill



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