That sent chills down my spine even though I rember reading about similar social experiments.<br> <br> Exceptionalism is also a scary and pervasive concept right right now. This is a reminder of what awaits down that road.
Scaramouche
<p>This is amazingly like <a href="<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440993717/qid=1121485981/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-3101789-5360139?v=glance&s=books"">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440993717/qid=1121485981/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-3101789-5360139?v=glance&s=books"</a> target="_blank">The Wave</a>, a young adult novel by Todd Strasser published in 1969. I'm wondering what the connection is.</p><
dwillia
This material is of the type that causes you to take a deep breath when you finish reading it. <br> I can't help but feel that this experiment is already <br> taking place, but on a massive scale, during which the desperately needed voice of dissent is only a whisper.<br> The people of the world that don't live in oppressed societies are taking too damn long to wake up and get <br> a clue. Along with the power to elect to government is the power to remove from government anyone making decisions detrimental to their country and it's citizens. <br> It is that power, that right, that people should now be taking advantage of, or the experiment continues.<br>
ang~
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In 1983 I was in eleventh grade taking a class called American History Survey. We reached the part about “Manifest Destiny”, in particular the part about the US Indian Wars. His reply to my questioning the “rightness”, if you will, of “Manifest Destiny” was that “...the American Indians were a conquered people. They lost, we won.”</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So, I asked him if he would like a group of solders to kick him out of his house, burn his Audi, rape his wife and daughter, and bash his families heads in with rifle butts because they did not want to spend money on bullets (Wounded Knee Massacre).</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Needless to say my B work in the class earned an F, until my father and I spoke to the Principle.</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The experiment has been going on for twenty-five years and Iraq is our Poland and France. God help us all.</P>
Zimxum