yep, weazel wants afganistan to stay poor, weazel don't want afgans to build a pipeline, weazel don't want agfgans to make money transporting oil , weazel wants afgans to keep fighting so he can blame it on bush
Those hooked on such propaganda have been well-trained by its authors to scream into the nearest telephone, or pound out a threatening e-mail, at the slightest hint of what they might perceive as "liberal ideas".
However, while it owes much to top-down exhortation, that grass-roots ever-readiness to fling abuse has also been enabled hugely by the internet...the postmodern version of old-fashioned hate mail, or rocks with scribbled warnings wrapped around them.
Not long ago, such smart technologies were warmly hailed--by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Ben Wattenberg, George Gilder, Mobil, Texas Instruments, et al....for their democratizing influence in, say, Manila under Marcos, Moscow under Gorbachev, Beijing under Deng Xiao-Ping, the faxes/e-mails/Internet sites eluding the dead hand of tyranny and helping keep the flame of Liberty alive, etc.
While there's some truth to that heroic formulation, it tends to blind us to the anti-democratic uses of such speedy gadgets here on the domestic front.
The likes of John9001, Grunherz, Cabby....and you as well Funked, hit the keyboards not to broaden the debate but to abort it, taking your wild cyber-shots either to intimidate the heretics or to discourage others from paying attention.
