Posted on 11/24/2001 11:59:07 AM PST by america-rules
Is anyone really surprised? Our so-called free press is probably more dishonest than Pravda in the time of Stalin.
I think a more appropriate question is "Is the NYT primarily comprised of domestic enemies ?"
Except that the Weekly Standard is a conservative publication is it not?
Thank you for posting this excellent and factual article.
Some of us have been saying the same thing for weeks but David Tell lays out the facts so clearly as to make it impossible to deny them. This won't deter the Bush-haters and tin-foil hat people from babbling on about how Bush is a dictator and we're all gonna die in some dungeon somewhere but it's a great piece to use as a reminder them of the facts of the situation.
They may run from the truth but they can't hide.
The Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was not the first time in history that destruction has prompted greater government powers to provide the people with "safety".Such a scenario goes back to the burning of Rome under Neros rule.Does anyone know when the "OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY" was first proposed? 1998 by the initiative of "FORMER"President Clintoon,sorry,Clinton and ..........Newt Gingrich. Both Members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lets look at a more recent example. On February 27 1933 (shortly after Hitler became Chancellor),the Reichstag building was set afire.Although it remains unclear whether the fire was set by a communist saboteur or a Nazi agent provocateur,the Nazis capitalized on it. Insisting the fire prefigured a communist onslaught against the German state,Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to sign an "EMERGENCY" decree suspending CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES and allowing the state to exercise extraordinary powers in the name of "PUBLIC SAFETY".
Of course we all know the eventual result of that action.The number of "WAR CASUALTIES"and German citizens who lost their lives in the extermination camps(most of those exterminated were in fact German citizens,just not the MAJORITY) far exceeded any who may have died as a result of domestic terrorism.
As was the inevitable case when FREEDOM is lost,The greatest number of deaths came at the hands of "OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT".
Today we face a double threat.Not only is radical new legislation being proposed to INCREASE the powers of the GOVERNMENT in the name of "FIGHTING TERRORISM",but we have a potential "WORLD GOVERNMENT" to worry about that did not exist in 1933.
I don't think President Bush is a dictator and I don't ascribe bad motives to him, but I think some of the powers the federal government has accumulated in the recent anti-terrorism acts are not necessarily in our interest when exercised by future presidents. The recent legislation undermines Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure, undermines attorney-client privilege, weakens privacy with respect to our finances, e-mail and telephone communications and elsewhere, and does not define "terrorist" or terrorism" well enough to confine the application of such legislation.
I think some of these policies are constitutionally dubious at best. When faced by new powers assumed by the federal government, Freepers should ask themselves not whether they trust George W. and John Ashcroft with them, but whether they would trust Bill Clinton and Janet Reno with them (or Hillary and/or Algore in the future). That is a better measure of whether these constitute an acceptable abridgement of our civil liberties.
"It only seems zat vay if you are hiding somezing."
See?
COMRADE DAGOSAVITCH
OCCUPIED USSA
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