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Armed Truther Insurrection!

His voice was building. "Listen to me," he said. "The degree of perfidy involved here is so great, that in the time of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, frenzied mobs would have dragged these men out of their beds in the middle of the night and ripped them to shreds!"

"Yeah!" cried a chorus of voices in the audience. "Yeah!"
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Elizabeth I said:
No, no, no, it's:

Euripides?

Yes. Eumenides?

:D



Well, some of them revolt me. Does that count?
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Count DeMonet: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The peasants are revolting!"
King Louis: "That's right....they stink on ice!"
(an exchange between Harvey Korman and Mel Brooks in "History of the World: Part 1)
 
Cl1mh4224rd said:
Yeah. I think most of them have it in their head that they can be that great leader who rallies their followers to action by merely giving a speech or spreading the word.

However, they don't seem to realize that a movement composed of 80% of these types just isn't going anywhere.
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Quite true. It's a very self-absorbed fantasy when you get to the more extreme conspiracy theorists, and they seem to have a compulsion to be the hero of an epic story that is lacking in the most important elements to actually be an epic story-- namely the depth of conviction and the will to action.
 
i now support the 2nd amendment. we need guns to protect ourselves from the truthers.
 
Dr. Fetzer's comments bear some special attention, unfortunately. Unlike the majority of the Truth Movement, he served his country in the United States Marine Corps. As a consequence, there is little doubt that he knows how to handle a weapon, a skill that very few of them have.

It really breaks my heart to see otherwise interesting, honorable people driven to such madness based on delusions about September 11th. It just isn't right. Apart from trying to educate, I don't know how to help these people.
 
dudalb said:
Lenin or Mao would laugh themselves silly at Fetzer trying to organize or lead a revolution. The Twoofers could not revolt there way out of a paper bag.
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It all reminds me of my college days back at the height of the VietNam War. About once a week some chronic pothead would stand on a chair in the dining room at lunch or dinner (They never seemed to be around at breakfast time) and shout out:

"Hey man, they're dropping um....stuff...out of.... ahhh... bad....um stuff on those villagers and all over there in um....ah....you know. And we like....ah....um gotta organize and like march on...ahhhh...march on....um you know...and do a...ah...protest thing or something, ya know man."

Great dining entertainment.
 
Well, at least the Vietnam War actually happened. ;)
 
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I didn't know Fetzer still had any supporters, let alone a whole room full of them.
 
R.Mackey said:
Dr. Fetzer's comments bear some special attention, unfortunately. Unlike the majority of the Truth Movement, he served his country in the United States Marine Corps. As a consequence, there is little doubt that he knows how to handle a weapon, a skill that very few of them have.

It really breaks my heart to see otherwise interesting, honorable people driven to such madness based on delusions about September 11th. It just isn't right. Apart from trying to educate, I don't know how to help these people.
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I'm still hoping this is an elaborate experiment on Fetzer's part to test the effects of fallacious arguments from an authority figure on the behavior of mindless drones.
 
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