Missed this first time around. Good article, avoided hysteria, and identified the things that matter, not the superficial bits which people seem to focus on most times. The obvious repression and the swaggering and the uniforms and that are stage-dressing.

Since it's not an article that can be linked to, I can't see that the cut and paste convention really applies. As a post it's long, but as an article it's fairly short, and I think it deserved to be read in full. I think cutting something which can't be accessed in full isn't really a good thing to do.

Maybe in a case like this, whether it's an article by someone else, or a piece by a member, the answer is for the member to put it on a website themself, and then put a link and a quote here. That way the post is still fairly short, and the article might well be easier to read.

Thanks Amos. Don't worry about the blowflies buzzing around.