Are YOU ready to be bugged and tortured by George W. Bush?(The Free Press)

[kpete]

Columns
Harvey Wasserman

Are you ready to be bugged and tortured by George W. Bush?
January 19, 2006

It's not really terrorists George W. Bush wants to bug and torture. It's YOU.

It's not really terrorism he wants to fight. It's opposition from people he can't control.

It's not really US security he wants to protect. It's the power of his regime.

The Constitutional debate about whether these executive privileges are allowable in war is a smoke screen.

This isn't about war: It's about dictatorship. It’s about making power permanent by using private information against you, and by terrifying you with torture.

more at:

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1303

[mod mom]

1. yep, harvey telling it like it is.

[400Years]

2. I'm kicking and recommending this thread

nail head

[OneBlueSky]

3. kicked and recommended . . . can we get one more? . . . n/t

.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. I totally agree. Also, if he gets away with his claim to have the power

to spy without any control by law, that will be used as a precedent to use the same "war powers" to declare the next pre-emptive attack - on Iran.

NorthCom was set up in 2002 with one of its stated missions being to administer domestic US martial law if the President declares it.

It absolutely flummoxes me how people refuse to see the obvious. They're not "dots" to connect, they're a goddamned superhighway!

ETA: K & R

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Yep

Why else do they still haven't mentioned anything with BinLadin? So they can "bring him out" when they need more control.

[upi402]

6. Law enforcers have to go after vandals and ignore the war on terror

WTF?
:wtf:

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. This is also what is behind the pretension of the big "anti-porn"

crusade of Gonzales. It's so transparent - this is part of their campaign to destroy the freedom and privacy of the internet, which is pretty much the last holdout from their control of the media.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x180805
thread title (1-19-06 GD): I Finally Connected the Dots... Why is Porn a Top Priority for Gonzales???