gwb's speech today..The internet is a threat, even here in the USA

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

Another snippet from the speech...giving us a glimpse into where Homeland Security and the Patriot Act may be focusing their resources and energy in the near future.

And the rationale for that focus was floated today.

Instead of attending faraway training camps, recruits can now access online training libraries to learn how to build a roadside bomb, or fire a rocket-propelled grenade -- and this further spreads the threat of violence, even within peaceful democratic societies.

MKJ

edited to add the link:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-3.html

[deadparrot]

1. Which internet would that be, George? nt

[havocmom]

3. the one that lets people get the truth about him out

Threats to him and his regime are the only threats he worries about. The rest of us are on our own, as was proven during Katirna.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Well, the internet is now implicated as the evil accomplice to

the terrorists.

I am afraid this is the first little trial balloon being floated. We will hear more about this in the near future.

MKJ

[havocmom]

8. Been expecting it (and worse) since the Patriot Act made it legal

to deny rights to anyone accused of being bad.

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. The one invented by Al Gore, of course

Gotta blame them libruls for everything.

[texpatriot2004]

22. Did Al Gore have something to do with the Internet? nm

[marbuc]

2. Here's a crazy idea

How about implementing a benevolent foreign policy and reduce the number of recruits?

[dkofos]

21. What part of left field did you pull that idea? Crazy indeed

How on earth do expect to keep the sheeple scared with a benevolent foreign policy. We need more terra-ists not less.

We have not yet finished screwing the sheeple.

It's hard work ya know.

Sarcasm off

[mom cat]

4. Yer George loves the gun stores that sell assault weapons!

[Ouabache]

18. and George/ GOP loves it that there are NO TAGANTS in explosives

we can talk about that on the internet too George, how you and your corrupt fascist party would never support legislation to put tagants in explosives.

[mom cat]

20. Ok.. What is a tagant? Is it an identifyer so we could find where it came

from?

[Pepperbelly]

5. I suppose, Geoprge, that no one knew anything about that ...

shit before the advent of the internets.

[tompayne1]

7. howabout we outlaw computers?

and any way to acess information other than government TV?

[Gyre]

11. Exactly what they're planning.

Where has most vocal opposition appeared first? They want to silence us badly!

Gyre

[zulchzulu]

9. Thoughtcrimes need to be pursued and completely eliminated

Let's all turn ourselves in.

[drduffy]

10. oh what the hell,

what's the first thing revolutionaries do when they attempt to succeed with a coup?

duh..... control the media. Well, the internet is the last bastion of truth. It has been a thorn in BushCo's side. They would love to control it altogether. But the new developments noted on Raw Story may have thwarted some of it:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1585288,00.html

But even with those changes if they occur BushCo. could still do a 'China' with our part of the internet. What Irony that would be for America.


Here's to the day the Bush cabal gets removed, hung for treason, and then the US can get down to figuring out how to really survive peak oil and global warming without one third of its people dying off from starvation. Geeze I hate these neocon pieces of pig poop.

[ladjf]

12. Your language is rough but your message is good.

[Cha]

16. Yer not

alone!

[AntiFascist]

13. How Chinese (mainland) of him n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. did Bush ever hear of teh Anarchist Handbook?

that said, what george wants to do is to cancel the constitution and we palefaces are a threat to these boys.

Be proud of it

[Cha]

15. Fuck you, little geogie fearmonger bush..

Jon Stewart does an impression of bush that makes him sound like the babbling idiot son that he is.

You and your big bad government better leave our internet the fuck alone. I can't wait to see you outta here and your damn fascist nazi troops with you..Gone Gone Gone.

[texpatriot2004]

17. Hmm. Contradicts Gore's comments about the Internet.

I TRUST GORE MORE...WAY MORE.

Al Gore's speech on the Greatest Threat to our Democracy ends with this about the Internet:

<snip>

"...The final point I want to make is this: We must ensure that the Internet remains open and accessible to all citizens without any limitation on the ability of individuals to choose the content they wish regardless of the Internet service provider they use to connect to the Worldwide Web. We cannot take this future for granted. We must be prepared to fight for it because some of the same forces of corporate consolidation and control that have distorted the television marketplace have an interest in controlling the Internet marketplace as well. Far too much is at stake to ever allow that to happen.

We must ensure by all means possible that this medium of democracy's future develops in the mold of the open and free marketplace of ideas that our Founders knew was essential to the health and survival of freedom."