Thes goons can plan all they want to...WE THE PEOPLEI wish I could agree with you, but the goons have undone/disregarded parts of the Constitution (eminent domain, guns confiscated in New Orleans). We the people are too busy being distracted by hurricanes, murders, entertainment scandals to notice or do much. After all, Christmas was taken away and the American public (as a whole) did nothing. Look at Christmas cards - they are titled "holiday cards" on the box - even when the print inside is CLEARLY Christian.
And, part of the goons' plan is to keep us in fear, so we allow those pointless humiliating searches at the airports, voluntary pat-downs in subways, more and more monitoring of our activity, the so-called Patriot Act. Eventually we'll surrender our guns - as many cities already have done. The people haven't cried out in critical mass about those things, have they :(
Rice to try calming the softwood furor on trip to Canada: U.S. officials
Condoleezza Rice, making her first trip to Canada on Monday as U.S. secretary of state, will try to quell swirling tensions over the softwood lumber dispute
and showcase co-operation on other fronts.
While Canadian officials don't expect Rice to come armed with a solution to the softwood fight, they'll take the opportunity to argue again that a free trade panel's ultimate decision this summer in favour of Canada must be respected.
They'll make the point that it's difficult to talk about strengthening the continental partnership if decisions under the North American Free Trade Agreement aren't followed.
"There's going to be a stock-taking of where we are" with the North American partnership deal hammered out in Texas earlier this year between Bush, Martin and Mexico's Vincente Fox.
Martin is expected to raise Canada's opposition to U.S. plans to drill for oil in an Alaskan wildlife refuge and discuss global hotspots like Haiti and Sudan with Rice. Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew is sitting in on the meetings.
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Nope, I don't think Ms Rice would be a very good candidate for president, given her internationalist political bent.