AP / Yahoo News: In junta-ruled Thailand, reading is now resistance (While democracy is not an end-all, particularly if you have many divisions in a society at each other's throats, this form of protest might be an excellent idea in the US against the smothering 'soft totalitarianism' of our open-borders overlords. ...)

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In junta-ruled Thailand, reading is now resistance

BANGKOK (AP) — In junta-ruled Thailand, the simple act of reading in public has become an act of resistance.

On Saturday evening in Bangkok, a week and a half after the army seized power in a coup, about a dozen people gathered in the middle of a busy, elevated walkway connecting several of the capital's most luxurious shopping malls.

As pedestrians trundled past, the protesters sat down, pulled out book titles such as George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," a dystopian novel about life in a totalitarian surveillance state — and began to read. . . .

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     While democracy is not an end-all, particularly if you have many divisions in a society at each other's throats, this form of protest might be an excellent idea in the US against the smothering 'soft totalitarianism' of our open-borders overlords. For example, a recent news story about a fraternity at UC-Irvine that was punished for having a festive Fiji-themed party, with female students wearing grass skirts and coconut-shell bras, because it showed insensitivity/hate towards South Sea Islanders. Some understanding of how this fashionable Orwellian tumor attached itself and metastasized throughout the US can be had by reading 'The Culture of Critique.'