God's Senator

[blutoski]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...senator/?rnd=1138924716640&has-player=unknown

Article too long for complete quotation, but here's a relevant segment:

In place of 4 million slaves, he thinks of uncountable unborn babies, of all the persecuted Christians -- a nation within a nation, awaiting Brownback's liberation. Brownback, sir, thinks that secular America is crazy.

The senator stares, his face gentle but unsmiling.

He isn't joking.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Hmm. I hope he never reads "The Handmaid's Tale". He might decide it's a good idea.

 

[jj]

Hmm. I hope he never reads "The Handmaid's Tale". He might decide it's a good idea.

Given the last 15 years of politics, I think Margaret Atwood was prophetic.

 

[Hutch]

Given the last 15 years of politics, I think Margaret Atwood was prophetic.

Or Robert Anson Heinlein. If this isn't Nehemiah Scudder...

And a quote from the book by the aformentioned author on this topic:

Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... [sic] censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything —you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

Given what was written in the article, I thought it worth quoting.