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[mamadeb]

Huh. I don't get very political here, and for good reasons - I don't like talking politics and I don't like the animosity involved.

However, I hit on this essay in hp_essays and read that list and it all began to sound extremely familiar and current. As in, I forgot I was reading a Harry Potter essay and thought I was reading about the current US president. I was shocked when it turned out to be about Voldemort.

This is very, very scary.

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Y'know. I remember Nixon. And Ford. And Carter. I went to college during the Reagan years, and got married during the first Bush administration, and voted for Clinton twice. I remember Watergate and the hostages. I watched the Iran-Contra hearings. I remember nightmares about nuclear winter.

I was never scared of a president before. I didn't want Reagan or Bush pere to be president, but I knew that the country would survive. That Republicans were as invested in keeping this country free as any other American - maybe more than some far-left liberals like me.

I do NOT like this feeling.

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Being afraid of what others might do to you is one thing.

Being afraid of what your own leaders might do is something completely different.

[ginamariewade.livejournal.com]

Yeah.
The Patriot act scares the crap outta me. The idea that the US government can declare a US citizen an "enemy combatant"
and hold them without charging them for an indefinite period of time - that is terrifying. This whole country was founded on the idea that civilized people don't DO that. Hell - wasn't that in the MAGNA CARTA back in the 1200s!?