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A. AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT IS ON THE WAY, BUT THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES

Blake AUED 9 | Athens Banner-Herald writer | 9.3.2009 | http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/090309/new_489061975.shtml

MADISON - U.S. Rep. Paul Broun is again raising the specter of Democrats turning the United States into a totalitarian state. . . As he did when comparing Obama to Hitler and the Soviets last year, Broun cited a speech Obama gave in Colorado during the campaign last July calling for "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military.

B. THEIR DEMANDS FOR "RIGHTS" AND "FREEDOM" PREVENT COERCIVE GOVERNMENT DIRECTION, WHICH IS NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE CRUNCH

Herschel ELLIOTT 97 | University of Florida Emeritus Philosophy | February 1997 | http://dieoff.org/page121.htm

However, avoiding the cruel coercion of nature cannot be achieved as if by miracle or accident. . . people learn to unfold the evolving potential of being human.

C. THE CRUNCH RESULTS IN A STATE WORSE THAN NUCLEAR WAR. EVEN IF NATURE SURVIVES, HUMANKIND WON'T. ECOLOGICAL SCARCITY CAUSED BY UNCONTROLLABLE POPULATION GROWTH AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LEADS TO MASS EXTINCTIONS COMPARABLE TO THOSE OF THE CRETACEOUS.

William OPHULS 97 | Former Northwestern University Political Science Professor, International Studies Association’s Sprout Prize winner, American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award winner | __Requim for Modern Politics__

But the forests are not islands separate from the main. . . this is the beginning of ecological wisdom.