The secret policemen snatched the citizen from his house.

[hedgetrimmer]

http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2003/07/04/120.html

these stories i once read about the russians and now i read from the russians the stories about us....

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By Chris Floyd



"When you gonna wake up, and strengthen the things that remain?"


-- Bob Dylan

The secret policemen snatched the citizen from his house. There were no charges, no warrants, no warnings. They spirited him away to a secret location; no one knew where he had gone, why he'd disappeared. The covert agents grilled him, in secret, for three months. They told him that if he didn't cooperate, he'd be declared an enemy of the state -- then they could salt him away in a military prison or the regime's concentration camp and hold him there, without charges, for as long as they wanted.

Then, if they wanted, they could haul him before a military tribunal, try him in secret and, if they wanted, have him executed -- with no judicial oversight, no recourse to appeal save one: a plea for mercy from the regime's unelected leader. This usurper, who liked to be known as "The Commander," had given himself the arbitrary authority to strip any citizen of their liberty, and he alone -- no court, no council, no legislative body -- held the ultimate power of life and death over anyone he thus decreed an "enemy."

After months in secret captivity, the prisoner -- a young truck driver with a history of mental problems -- broke down. In a secret court session, he confessed to planning a series of crimes against the state. The success of this covert operation was announced by the head of the regime's internal police forces. His declaration -- that a citizen had been snatched, interrogated, threatened and broken in secret, outside every stricture of the country's old constitution -- was greeted with cries of admiration in the national press.

Yes, it was just another day in the New America -- the fearful, fawning, fortress-land that Bush and bin Laden have made. The above facts -- openly attested in the mainstream media -- are the raw guts of truth beneath the fancy PR frocks and propaganda implants that mask the inner moral rot of the Bush Regime.

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[gate of the sun]

1. The world knows

where we are headed , too bad the people in this country don't realize it for the most part. No US citizen really wants to go down this path. Well maybe a few do. I know I don't and I don't want my friends or family to either. what the hell, until people wake up the possibility of this scenerio happening will increase.

[Mairead]

2. Which is why it's vital to TURN THE COUNTRY AROUND

Total turnaround. 180, and then throttle wide open. Because we're on the edge of the waterfall and are out of time. If we don't escape now, we're not going to escape at all without a lot of our blood in the gutters.

Dennis Kucinich is the only one who's committed to turning the country around. I don't know whether even his policies will be enough, but I do know that no one else even sees the need to try (Sharpton does, but his website says he's standing more to educate than to win)

We are out of time. We need to do it NOW.