Living in a Diminished Republic

[maha]

We wake up two years later in a far diminished republic. The Bush administration has gone about this "war on terrorism" as though it were a war on the Bill of Rights.

If you want proof, I commend a new book by that title from columnist Nat Hentoff, which vividly describes the chilling compendium of abuses committed by our government since 9/11. The War on the Bill of Rights -- and the Gathering Resistance should be required reading in every high school government class.

Drawing parallels to McCarthyism and COINTELPRO, the FBI's attempt to undermine the civil rights movement, Hentoff chronicles a great wrong inflicted by government.

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[NJCher]

1. glad Nat has weighed in

He is the person to write this book. I used to tip a few with him when the Lion's Head was open in the Village.


Cher

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Eeew!

Nat Hentoff was into cow tipping?

--bkl
Moo.

[Brucey]

3. This admin has no shame at all.

Patriot Act II will pass with flying colors. McCarthyism is here already, is widely accepted by the average Jills and Joes, and will be expanded. Congress will likely give the $87B, and most of it goes to the military to destroy lives abroad. Then accounting tricks will be used to make it seem that chimpy hasn't done as much damage as he has. People will go back to their lives. Then another $80B will be needed and this time they won't ask, it will be done quietly. The saga will continue, the sheeple will accept, rights will diminish, resistance is futile, all hail the monkey-king!

[ixion]

4. I'm glad to see this get out there...

in print (hopefully). And it always makes me happy to hear about states growing more displeased with the that unconstitutional piece of legistlation. It should be repealed immediately.

[RainDog]

5. modern-day committees of correspondence

are here, on the internet.

and the Bush junta knows it.

Samuel Adams, who started them, is now just the name on a beer, but his spirit is also in Americans who have had it with these corporate whores.

Corporations now act like the British and believe we should be their subjects. Or course, you can't really separate Bush from the corporations (and many other politicians, too) because they have such a symbiotic relationship as parasites on freedom and democracy.