IT'S TIME FOR AMERICANS TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

[kpete]

January 22, 2006
Editorial
Bush leading an assault on our privacy, rights

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The president's justifications turn the world inside out. Brother Bush is spying on you to keep you secure. He's listening in on your phone calls to protect you from bad people and bad ideas. He's holding people in secret prisons to uphold the rule of law.

President Bush has taken our nation's massive "security" bureaucracy off the leash and sicced it on the wide, dangerous world out there. Unfortunately, that also includes all of us.

It's time for the American people to shake off their slumber and realize what the president has created. Our government - supposedly "of, by and for the people" - spies on us, listens to our phone calls, monitors what we read and now wants to know how we use the Internet.

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The rule of law - to which the president often pays lip service - doesn't mean manipulating the law to rule. It's time for Americans to say enough is enough.

more at:http://record-eagle.com/2006/jan/22edit.htm

[Nitrogenica]

1. I've had quite enough of the failures. SO MANY FAILURES!!

[Mme. Defarge]

2. "DAMN THE TORPEDOES, FULL SPEED AHEAD!"

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

http://www.duke.edu/eng169s2/group1/lex3/hyprdecl.htm