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“It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.”
—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Saturday, April 16, 2005
 
Bush Always Said a Dictatorship Would Be Easier
watertiger makes a good point:

How long before this happens here?

QUITO, Ecuador - President Lucio Gutierrez declared a state of emergency in the capital city of this Andean nation and dissolved the Supreme Court, saying the unpopular judges were the cause of three days of pot-banging street protests in Quito.

"Unpopular judges." No, nothing to see here, move along.
- posted by TJ @ 9:51 AM
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