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2003-07-10 Iraq

âLong Live Dictatorshipâ: An Arab Columnist on Dictatorships in the Arab World

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Posted by 11A5S 2003-07-10 12:23:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow. Deep.

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-10 12:31:39 AM|| 2003-7-10 12:31:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Think of it as a disease. The Mother of All Diseases.

It can become extremely virulent within an infected population and is most contagious when present en masse as it then controls its own environment.

It manifests itself most apparently in Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Indonesia. It currently seems poised to spread into other Asian and African regions, as well as westward. Free, democratic, and industrialized (i.e. affluent) populations appear to have the greatest degree of natural resistance - as evidenced by visibly lower infection rates in many areas, but this immunity varies across a wide range. It seems that no population is totally immune.

Each locale displays slight variations in the symptoms (e.g. external appearance: facial hair or lack, headwear design, etc.), but the disease process is the same. It activates and attacks children when they first begin to comprehend language and, if allowed to reinforce the initial phase with concentrated ongoing exposure, the host is doomed. This readily occurs in saturated populations - becoming ever more virulent over time for the complete lifecycle of the host. In fact, this agent is so insidious that it threatens death to any host so bold as to contemplate any form of treatment, whether it is through escape from the infected population or any degree of active resistance within.

The disease process begins by destroying individualism, identity, and intellectual curiosity - replacing them with total compliance and acceptance of the authoritarian. The advanced state of the illness commonly expresses itself through repression, brutality, blind hatred, and psychopathic insanity. This occurs when a sufficient number of hosts have been infected. This critical mass - a saturated population, once reached, utterly destroys social tolerance and discourse - and yields a total loss of self, will, honor and respect for others.

In the most advanced cases, saturated populations have been observed actively killing potential hosts through external means - without bothering to infect them. At this stage, the clinician is likely to find himself bewildered - as it is counterintuitive: this behavior runs counter to all other natural processes; it just makes no sense.

For young children it has been observed, in the rare cases where it has been possible to do so, that removal from the infected population may halt the process - if done early enough and the child is completely isolated such that they only have contact with naturally immune hosts.

For the mature individual, however, if reared in an infected population - particularly one displaying the characteristics of an advanced stage - there is no known cure. It leaves no aspect, no potential, absolutely nothing of the individual host uncorrupted.

All identified vectors should be aggressively treated - with extreme prejudice and without hesitation - at the first signs of symptomatic behavior. Total eradication will likely be necessary to check the spread and prevent future outbreaks.

The only know pathogen with a human fatality rate of 100 percent: Islam.

Posted by PD 2003-7-10 3:00:44 AM|| 2003-7-10 3:00:44 AM|| Front Page Top

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