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[Melissa G]

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'A Coup Has Occurred' By Daniel Ellsberg
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'A Coup Has Occurred'

By Daniel Ellsberg
September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007)

Editor’s Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.

Below is an edited transcript of Ellsberg’s remarkable speech:

I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.

If there’s another 9/11 under this regime … it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

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[nancyr]

1. A sobering read.

This should be required reading for everyone in this country. I'm afraid his assessment is correct.

[bdamomma]

3. this will bite us back, if we do not do something to change the course

these thugs NEED to be challenged I don't care by who, but they need to be challenged.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

2. Yup. They will do it with that irritating smirk on thier faces, too.

The state of this nation is just unreal. But, I gotta' say, it is the mass-scale denial which is the nightmare, in my view.

Mr. Ellsberg must be quite distraught, witnessing the evolution of a fascist state far exceeding that which he had previously experienced. I know it distresses the hell out of me!!!

[bdamomma]

4. Until this affects us all those who are in denial and not in denial

that is when you may possibly? see the masses react.

[Melissa G]

5. Kick n/t