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G2099 Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 04:42 AM
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Gingrich, Political Opposition, American Citizens, an ''Insurgency''
Bush-Republican Neo-Conservatives have consolidated all the government's powers and have used that power as a tool to undermine America's democracy, to viciously assail any citizen who openly disagrees with their policies, and to cow their opposition. As such, the people have no effective systematic recourse or resources through which to oppose their government, other than through the formation of an internet "insurgency".

The Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative form of governance displays all the symptoms of tyranny and as such is deserving of being opposed in the most strenuous manner, including the formation of an internet-based political "insurgency".

http://progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1231
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 04:58 AM
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1. So now American people also insurgent
Heck of a job bush.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 05:00 AM
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2. We're a heartbeat away from having the Executive
go to war on the people with real guns. I know that some of you will treat this as hyperbole, but don't you feel the tension? They are just waiting for the right situation to come along and give them such an excuse.
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Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 05:06 AM
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3. No he is in deepshit on the Isreal?Lebanon issue
If you follow the press conference after the UN security coucil address by parties not on the SC
and the way the Envoy representing all the 22 Arab league answer the question of wheather the might be war between Isreal and the 22 countries. You get worry.

He avoided the point entirely. Refuse to comment. That is not a good sign.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 05:17 AM
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4. What? What does this have to do with the way internal
American policies are being conducted between the government and the American people?
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:24 PM
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5. Here is a commentary on it.
Newt Gingrich Considers Political Opposition, American Citizens, to be an ''Insurgency''
A. Alexander, August 7th, 2006

Some have expressed concern over Newt Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency", while referring to Ned Lamont supporters in Connecticut. From a personal perspective, Gingrich was correct in obliquely referring to America's blogosphere and directly Lamont supporters, as being an "insurgency". Gingrich, of course, meant the term to be derogatory and a means of linking those that oppose Bush's war follies with terrorists. Still, Crazy Newt the serial divorcer was correct in more ways than he fully understands and, too, revealed the Neo-Conservative agenda in a clear and yet, unintended way.

That Gingrich would openly refer to those who oppose Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative madness as being an "insurgency" is, in a very real sense, the first public admission that the Bush regime and Republicans are at war with the American people. It is a blatant confession of the ultimate Neo-Conservative agenda, i.e. a deliberate and swift movement toward a very real Executive dictatorship wherein those who dissent or disagree are "the enemy" or members of an "insurgency". Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency" when referring to fellow Americans reveals in no uncertain terms the reality that the Neo-Cons recognize a movement forming that consists of the American people and that is designed to directly challenge their drive toward a nationalist imperialistic dictatorship.

Open and truly democratic governments don't view their political opponents as "enemies" whose opposition is looked upon as an "insurgency", and they certainly don't feel a need to be at war with the people they govern. For Gingrich, Bush, Republicans and the entire Neo-Conservative movement; however, the reality is that the American people are increasingly questioning their "right to rule" and are, therefore, considered enemies or, as Newt Gingrich more aptly said, an "insurgency".

The fact of the matter is that Newt Gingrich is right! There is no better way of defining and describing those American citizens who have formed and continue forming a direct and spirited opposition to the Neo-Conservatives' madness, as being anything other than an "insurgency". Bush and Republicans have busied themselves at the task of disregarding American laws; International laws; have committed war crimes; lied to the American people in order to engage in war with Iraq; unilaterally exempted themselves from the Constitution; committed treason by revealing an undercover CIA agent's name; undermined a free press; illegally spied upon American citizens; instituted a policy of merging church and state; stacked the courts with nefarious individuals that would knowingly and willingly support an Executive dictatorship; provided their crony pals with government appointments and large government contracts that have resulted in grotesque profits without services being provided; raped the nation's treasury; supported big oils' obscene profit taking at the expense of the American people; left New Orleans to rot and refused to help while more than 1,300 citizens perished, and through stygian deception refused to hold anyone to account.

http://progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1231
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