[Vision2020] Palin's Nightmare

[Saundra Lund]

Harper's Magazine

October 26, 9:16 AM, 2008

Palin's Nightmare

By Scott Horton

 

In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Republican Vice Presidential
candidate Sarah Palin told the crowd that an Obama presidency would present
the specter of a socialist state in which fundamental American freedoms are
undermined. Let's go to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5ZkgNNBQE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5ZkgNNBQE&eurl=http://harpers.org/archive/
2008/10/hbc-90003761> &eurl=http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761

Does Sarah mean a state:

*	That snatches its victims off the street, denies them all form of
legal process and whisks them away to secret "blacksites" where they can be
tortured using all the techniques described in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at
Noon? 
*	That arrests and prosecutes its political adversaries for imaginary
crimes so as to eliminate them from the running in election cycles in which
they could do some damage? 
*	That destroys the careers of professional military men because they
got promotions under a prior regime and therefore considers them disloyal? 
*	That believes it can detain and hold its enemies forever without any
charges or any evidence against them, denying them access to courts to prove
their innocence? 
*	That constantly manipulates the population's fear whenever its
public popularity slips and elections begin to approach? 
*	That believes that it can make no errors, and that those who point
to its errors are traitors? 
*	That systematically spies on millions of its citizens in direct
violation of a criminal statute which forbids such surveillance? 
*	That signs new laws with its fingers crossed in the form of signing
statements, so that no one knows whether the laws-or any part of them-will
actually be enforced? 
*	That lies to its people about threats from abroad in an effort to
build popular support for a series of wars and then cites the existence of
those wars as a reason to suppress dissent? 
*	That nationalizes the debt of predatory capitalists so they suffer
no punishment for their misconduct and then nationalizes major financial
institutions, converting the nation's free market system into a socialism in
which crony capitalists are a privileged elite? 

Sarah, you have no need to fear the future.

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761

 

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