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To: James Calladine who wrote (2879)	12/24/2003 6:05:01 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3602

Has all the feeling of seeding an idea into the marketplace as part of a planned implementation process based on a genuine expectation. Yup, and that's why it is so sick and sinister. It is a plan to end our republic and transform America into the most vile and despised empire the planet has ever seen. And men like Frank, and Myers feel compelled to do this because they see American popular culture and our failing cities and education and see moral rot that they hope to correct by means of military discipline. Another aspect of the "planned implementation" is the transformation of television programming over the past couple of years to where when flipping the channel, one almost invariably is going to find a major dosing of war related programming. The news channels, of course, but also the History Channel, Discovery, the Learning Channel, PBS and the networks all have much more emphasis on war and conflict. An interesting thread is the heroic portrayal of the Spartan culture and the Battle of Thermopylae. Donald Kagan, Victor Davis Hanson, among others have been making quite a cult out of the hero worship of King Leonidas and the warriors. It's all completely mad, from the perspective of what the ideals of our nation were supposed to be according to the Founding Fathers. But to the neo-cons, the warrior is a god. And a way of life. And a really psychotic way to proceed with modern living. This is why I get so aggravated with the airheads who take up Eastern mysticism, or other escapisms. They're going to get run over by the Spartans in our midst. Just like the Tibetans got run over by a more aggressive Han Chinese culture. But I digress.......