" Pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed,
not the pleasant kind but the kind that makes you feel
like when you are eating
bread that got sand in it"
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- You had not aged a bit , Colonel since we talked for the first time in the Y2005.
- I saved our discussion http://www.opednews.com/Diary/I-am-talking-with-Colonel-by-Mark-Sashine-050628-280.html
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You are still the same- a proud Southern aristocrat, talking to the lynching mob with a rifle in your hand. I though had aged considerably. Misery withers us, Colonel; we are in deep trouble even more than before. We thought the imbecile in power was the worst we could get but now we have a droner. This one kills from afar and then talks about peace. If he was in charge in your time, Colonel, he would not have rushed with the mob; he would have put you on the list and quietly shot you in the back. Or he would have sent a drone to destroy your house and kill all in it; so effective we had become, Colonel. Oh, BTW, he is African- American. Turned out that we are the same after all; malice and cowardice do not discriminate.
"The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking that you had pluck enough to lynch a man!. .Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind- as long as it is daytime and you're not behind him.."
- Oh yes, Colonel. But you see, now lynching had become an entertainment. We lynch someone far away and then we watch on TV how a person dies. It makes our day. Also we involve others. A chromium creature, all legs, breasts and teeth comes out on the screen and explains how great it is that our drone shot at the Libyan convoy with the French missile and using British guidance system. What a cooperation! And we laugh, Colonel, we laugh like hysterical bullies at the suffering of others; we are drunk with blood, Colonel. I am sincerely happy for you that you had only to deal with ordinary mobsters.
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- ".. The average man's a coward. In the North he lets anybody walk over him that wants to and goes home and prays fro a humble spirit to bear it."
- That is correct. And a cowardly idiot joins the Tea- Party and puts on a ridiculous hat with tea --bags on it and fills himself with beer and marches on Washington while crooked SOBs which sent him there laugh their ears off. Yes, the so-called average man is a real beast. He elects monsters to the Congress, he designs stupid, cruel immigration laws, he enjoys nonsense and cruelty while at the same time he loses his job, his house, his livelihood to exactly those who sell him that rotten food he consumes. He lets anybody walk over him and then blames immigrants, Chinese, young people and Moslems but he never, never blames the fluffy fat cats with sharp claws that rob him fair and square and enjoy every minute of that process. He blames the government but never the rulers, he blames black people but never the rich ones, he proclaims that he is angry but in reality he is such a coward that he is incapable of real anger; only howling remains, no real teeth.
"Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver then any other people, whereas you are just as brave, an no braver."
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