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<p class=MsoPlainText>Harper's Magazine<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>October 26, 9:16 AM, 2008<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Palin’s Nightmare<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>By Scott Horton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN>In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Republican Vice
Presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the crowd that an Obama presidency
would present the specter of a socialist state in which fundamental American
freedoms are undermined. Let’s go to the video:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5ZkgNNBQE&eurl=http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5ZkgNNBQE&eurl=http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Does
Sarah mean a state:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That snatches its victims off the street,
denies them all form of legal process and whisks them away to secret
“blacksites” where they can be tortured using all the
techniques described in Arthur Koestler’s <i>Darkness at Noon</i>? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That arrests and prosecutes its political
adversaries for imaginary crimes so as to eliminate them from the running
in election cycles in which they could do some damage? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That destroys the careers of professional
military men because they got promotions under a prior regime and
therefore considers them disloyal? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That believes it can detain and hold its
enemies forever without any charges or any evidence against them, denying
them access to courts to prove their innocence? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That constantly manipulates the
population’s fear whenever its public popularity slips and elections
begin to approach? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That believes that it can make no errors, and
that those who point to its errors are traitors? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That systematically spies on millions of its
citizens in direct violation of a criminal statute which forbids such
surveillance? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That signs new laws with its fingers crossed in
the form of signing statements, so that no one knows whether the
laws—or any part of them—will actually be enforced? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That lies to its people about threats from
abroad in an effort to build popular support for a series of wars and then
cites the existence of those wars as a reason to suppress dissent? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>That nationalizes the debt of predatory
capitalists so they suffer no punishment for their misconduct and then
nationalizes major financial institutions, converting the nation’s
free market system into a socialism in which crony capitalists are a
privileged elite? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sarah,
you have no need to fear the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761">http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003761</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
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