Welcome to the New Soviet Union

How would you like to live in a nation in which due process was a detail of history?

How would you like to live in a nation in which the Federal government could enter your house without your permission, or even your knowledge, search the place, and put a device on your computer that would monitor every stroke on the keyboard? This is without your being charged with anything.

How would you like it if the law said that, in the event that you found out what the Feds had been doing to you, you weren't allowed to tell anybody? How would you like it if that ban on talking even included talking to a lawyer? So that if you found out that you were being spied on, and didn't know why, and wanted it to stop, and went and got a lawyer and told him what was going on... you could go to prison for it.

Would you like to live in such a nation?

You already do.

And the law is already in force, and about to become permanent.

It's called the Patriot Act, a laugh-out-loud funny name for the most Un-American legislation since McCarthy.

It was introduced almost immediately after September 11, 2001. Since Bush and his cronies kept saying that the terrorists attacked American because "they hate freedom," one might reasonably assume that our government decided to placate the terrorists by abolishing our freedom.

We have never had the freedom to engage in terrorism, of course; nor should we. It is a crime, and there has always been legislation in place to deal with criminal activity. The Patriot Act is not designed to track crime.

It is designed to track what you say, what you read, what you write. It is about tracking what people think, not what they do.

We might have hoped that the Patriot Act was simply a panicked reaction to 9-11, and that common sense (and real American values) would prevail when it came up for renewal. But that hope was in vain. Last Friday, Senators came to an agreement with the White House about some slight amendments to the act, clearing the way for it to become permanent.

Goodbye, America. We hope you come back to us someday.

We used to be a country that had a bill of rights. Now we're a country where you have to urinate in a cup to get a menial job.

We used to be a country with the presumption of innocence and the right to counsel. Now we're a country where some people can be arrested and held indefinitely without charges and without access to a lawyer.

We used to be a country with guaranteed freedom of speech. Now we're a country where what we say, write and read can be legally monitored.

Does this sound familiar? Does it sound like another country, one which America stood opposed to for decades?

You bet, tovaritch.

When you consider the provisions of the Patriot Act, you have to wonder what conservative would sign such a thing. And, when we're at a point in history where avowed conservatives will so easily sign away our rights, our freedoms, for some imagined sense of security, only one thing is certain...

The terrorists got what they want.

And so they've won. "

9-11 official story and Iraq war

Why is it that a majority of Americans believe that Mr Bush lied about about WMD's in Iraq but yet believe the official story about 9-11???? Things that make you say hummm

The terror of President Bush

Following accelerating criticism that the Bush Administration's domestic spying program violated every possible U.S. law and Constitutional amendment, the Bush Administration has now renamed its blatantly illegal domestic spying program the "terrorist surveillance program." Fox News has already adopted the moniker, resorting to classic Orwellian Newsspeak to convince viewers that since this illegal government operation contains the word "terrorist," it must be okay.

Where would George Bush be today without the word "terror," by the way? That single word, it seems, is solely responsible for Bush's continued popularity among simple-minded Americans. Without the word "terror," Bush would have no war, no foreign policy, no justification for decimating the Constitution, and nothing to talk about in his speeches. His entire presidency since 9/11, a few observant people are realizing, is really based on just two things: terror and tyranny. And he's using the former to achieve the latter.

One word can do a lot for a politician, especially if it is repeated like a political mantra. I'm not exactly sure how many times Bush has used the word "terror" or its derivations, because that would require actually listening to all the Bush speeches -- an act that would almost certainly cause the permanent IQ reduction of anyone foolish enough to engage in such activities.

Without question, Bush has invoked the "terror" word with near religious zealotry in his campaigns to simultaneously overthrow foreign nations and domestic civil liberties. Never before has so much evil sprung from the repeated invocation of a single word.

The Terror of the Masses

The outright evil of one man is not nearly as surprising (nor frightening) as the collective evil of the people who go along with him. Dumbfounded Conservatives all across the country blindly stroll into history along the same well-trodden path followed by Hitler's fascist supporters.
It's a well-worn path: First you create an imaginary enemy to justify war. Then you strip away the civil liberties of your own citizens and launch domestic spying programs to keep everyone in a constant state of fear. Next you manipulate the propaganda to tell everyone what to think. The torturing of "enemy combatants" is already underway, and it won't be long before the clockwork arrest of "dissenting" Americans begins.

None of this talk is even in the realm of conspiracy theories anymore. It's practically a play-by-play account of exactly what the Bush Administration is doing. Under the Clinton Administration, a secret domestic spying program being discovered would have been Conservatives' call to hang the poor man from a tree, but under Bush, Conservatives go right along with any liberty-destroying action, no matter how ludicrous or illegal.

That all this is happening right before our eyes, with such obvious historical parallels to the rise of Hitler, is practically unbelievable. The rhetoric is almost exactly the same, except it's in eighth-grade English rather than German. But warmongering and global imperialism need no language translations, because the message communicated by an imperial soldier shoving a rifle in your face is pretty much universal. Both Hitler and Bush call it "freedom," and both explained their invasions of foreign nations as "liberating their people," but students of history know better. (Does anyone read history anymore?)

Like nearly every empire in the history of human civilization, the Bush empire will eventually fall. And in its wake will be left the horrors of American imperialism. One day the mass hallucinations of the Bush supporters will disappear, and they will wake up and ask themselves, "What have we done?" It will be like the citizens of Germany seeing the Nazi concentration camps for the first time following Hitler's suicide. They could not believe what they had supported. They could not imagine what evils they had tolerated, if not downright participated in.
And after the fall of the Bush empire, the American people will have to get down to the business of repairing what's left of the Constitution. They will have to roll back government powers, pursue criminal prosecutions of the active war criminals currently operating throughout the Bush Administration, and reestablish the rule of law.

The King of Terror

It is precisely the rule of law, by the way, that Bush now imagines does not exist. In an astounding act of tyrannical defiance, Bush actually admitted he not only supported the high crimes of secret domestic spying on American citizens, but he actually intended to EXPAND such actions in direct violation of every law upon which this nation was founded. On that day, King George declared his kingship of the land, and effectively announced that he was now above all laws.
Astoundingly, there was no marching in the streets. Members of Congress did not call an emergency session and impeach the President. Even the press hardly mentioned the unprecedented transition that had just taken place, because of course they were too busy high-fiving each other with the word "terror" to actually say anything useful.

The people, the lawmakers and practically the whole country just went along with King George! Consider the irony. The United States of America, a nation that was founded by revolutionaries who insisted on self-rule and freedom from the tyranny of kings, had just crowned its own new king, with hardly a whimper from the masses. It's as if Americans have no knowledge whatsoever of their own history.

Even now, no one seems to notice. We are marching full-force into history's Hall of Shame, with our new king, our new media, and our new imperial wars. Never has so much been evil achieved by the invocation of a single word: TERROR.

And the terror is by no means over. Americans will be kept in a constant state of fear (by chance or by design) for as long as the Bush family can get away with it. Because terror, after all, is very, very profitable for certain industries and power brokers, most of which happen to be strong supporters of the Bush Administration.

Remember, Americans. Remain afraid. Imagine Islamic enemies in your head when you go to sleep at night. Support your new King and his troops. And tune in to Fox News to be told what to do next.