Monday, November 01, 2004
08:45 AM
hope springs eternal

Dennis Loy Johnson: Books v. Bush: "

This Week’s Column:

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE — FOREVER


by Dennis Loy Johnson


1 November 2004 — The madness is either just about over, or about to be given license to kill. Imagine, the guy who said "You're either for us or against us" — a fairly textbook declaration of fascism, and one now being uttered by Americans versus Americans via the Patriot Act — could be re–elected. Excuse me — elected. It's enough to make you want to do—what? Vote harder, somehow.

I mean, we find ourselves in a bizarre and terrifying situation. A man who has sent over a thousand people to their death for a lie could be on the verge of getting an unthinkable mandate. Meanwhile, what of the rest of the world? They've been thinking, well, he stole the office the first time; now they'll think: but the second time they chose him. They'll be mad at all of us, and we will be as alone as we can be with this madman.

And perhaps the most maddening thing short of this prospect is the tita"

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