American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss (PC Roberts)

[katty]

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American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss

By Paul Craig Roberts

28/01/08 "ICH" -- - -“Your papers please” has long been a phrase associated with Hitler’s Gestapo. People without the Third Reich’s stamp of approval were hauled off to Nazi Germany’s version of Halliburton detention centers.

Today Americans are on the verge of being asked for their papers, although probably without the “please.”

Thanks to a government that has turned its back on the US Constitution, Americans now have an unaccountable Department of Homeland Security that is already asserting tyrannical powers over US citizens and state governments. Headed by the neocon fanatic Michael Chertoff, the Orwellian-sounding Department of Homeland Security has mandated a national identity card for Americans, without which Americans may not enter airports or courthouses.

There is no more need for this card than there is for a Department of Homeland Security. Neither are compatible with a free society.

However, Bush, the neocons, Republicans and Democrats do not want America to any longer be a free society, and they are taking freedom away from us just as they took away the independence of the media.

Free and informed people get in the way of power-mad zealots with agendas.

It is the agendas that are supreme, not the American people, who have less and less say about less and less.

George W. Bush, an elected president, has behaved like a dictator since September 11, 2001. If “our” representatives in Congress care, they haven’t done anything about it. Bush has pretty much cut Congress out of the action.

[R_M]

1. K & R!

[gateley]

2. Ditto - K&R. nt

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Great post.

My feeling is that quite a few of our congress critters protest all of our rights being destroyed, but the Bushites are running this country in a mafioso fashion and have probably made many threats, or at least one likes to think that is the only way they could have gotten away with such shit all this time!!! Hopefully, we can turn things around in November, and I hope we can all hang on until then, or better yet, let's impeach the bastids pronto!

[katty]

4. PCR telling it like it IS--a reality check for U.S.

already a friend of mine has the 'new passport'- it's pretty creepy.