A very insightful essay was written by Jonathan Turley 2 years ago here
http://www.letstalksense.com/articles/turley010302.htm"What would happen if you woke up living in a quasi-police state? It is a question that seems entirely academic -- if not absurd -- to Americans who pride themselves on being the leading voice of liberty in the world. This status, however, is less unquestionable as it is unquestioned. A review of administration policies at the beginning of 2003 raises serious questions about the character of the government formed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Major changes have come in small, incremental steps, with each privacy right or civil liability concern balanced in isolation against the potential of a massive attack.
In a sense, the Bush administration is a study in public policy pointillism, the Impressionist technique of French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat in which innumerable small dots of color are largely meaningless until the viewer stands at a distance. Only then does a picture emerge as a whole from the aggregation of the dots. So too the full effect of the changes of the Bush administration is only now coming into view."
read on...we know it...worse we KNEW it 2 years ago and yet what have WE done? We're now pretty officially deeper now than we were then. How long do we beat the drum before we are no longer able to beat it?
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