To Reframe Debate, Say 'Secret Police'

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Frameshop: To Reframe Debate, Say 'Secret Police'

Domestic Spying Scandal Reveals Bush's 'Chilling Vision' Of America Where 'Secret Police' 'Crack Down' On Citizens

Despite the spreading concern over the NSA domestic spying scandal and the PATRIOT Act, President Bush and his cabinet are winning the political debate. When Americans of all political stripes protest the 'violation of rights,' the President and his team respond that these programs have 'saved American lives.'

It is time for all of us to stop tiptoeing around the issue and use better words to frame this debate:

4 WAYS TO REFRAME NSA-PATRIOT DEBATE:

1. Secret Police ("...Bush has brought secret police to America...")
2. Chilling Vision ("...Cheney's chilling vision reminds me of East Germany...")
3. Fear Spreading ("...fear spreading to every corner of America...")
4. Crack Down ("...threatens to crack down on ordinary Americans...")

These four phrases are not a critique of the ideas that Democrats have put forward in the past few weeks. Senator Feingold, for example, has focused attention on the problem of accessing 'library records' and the importance of 'checks and balances,' in addition to questions about the constitutionality of warrantless wiretapping. These topics are very important, but they are still too rooted in questions of policy to adequately frame the entire debate.

The four suggestions presented in this post, push the debate to a question of values and morality.

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[HockeyMom]

1. It's the 3rd Reich and 1984,

with a healthy dosage of the Crusades and Inquistion all mixed together.

[CJCRANE]

2. * is Secret Policeman #1 nt

[hwmnbn]

3. Correct you are.....

secret police is what everyone needs to hear. Secret police, spying, president breaking the law,
secret police, abramoff, plamegate, secret police, corrupt republicans, administration incompetence, secret police, cronyism, massive deficits, secret police, prescription drug fiasco, Iraq quagmire, secret police........and on and on

[ImNotBuying]

4. The new KGB

NSA = KGB. Anyone who grew up prior to the fall of the wall remembers all the stories we where taught about how evil the USSR was for spying on it's own people, crushing political dissent, and disappearing people to Siberian gulags. Well here we are. Welcome to the USSA. Papers comrade? No? Well off to Guantanamo for you!
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