What You Should Really Fear

Lew Rockwell ^ | 11/24/01 | Brad Edmonds

[Twodees]

Yes you're right on all counts in your asessment of the danger. I didn't mean to imply that you're deluded, because you've made it plain that you're watching carefully. The most dangerous threat from wihin lies in our own elected officials. The entire Senate seems to be nothing but a nest of traitors, along with a very large portion of the House. The judiciary has been the enemy for many decades.

[Smokin' Joe]

(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that-- `(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; `(B) appear to be intended-- `(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; `(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or `(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and `(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.'.

Watch where you smoke cigarettes, people! It isn't just Montgomery County, Maryland anymore.

[Ada Coddington]

This gives them plausable deniability, while, at the same time, giving them exactly what they most desire.....more power with which to rule/control the peasants.

They no longer rule. The branch of goverment that was once the most equal has been reduced to debating about junk like desecrating the American flag while the country is run by the Executive bureaucracy in partnership with the courts. Passing vague bills to be enforced by the bureaucrats gives them deniability when their constituents start complaining: "We never intended that."

[LiberteeBell]

The people who want to be cared for by an omnipotent government are now in the majority and have been for the last 7 decades. It isn't going to get any better.

Just wait 'till they find out that all the laws and bills in the world won't prevent another terrorist attack.

[Savage Beast]

I was serious when I said that I might be delusional. Self-deception and denial can be very insidious.

[Savage Beast]

Scary but true, Joe. Scary but true. The Liberals can't wait for "1984"!

[Uncle Sham]

"Just wait 'till they find out that all the laws and bills in the world won't prevent another terrorist attack. "

Precisely why our government feels that the greatest threat to it's survival comes from "within". The elected ones are much more afraid of we the people than they are of outside threats. Expect even more crackdowns on OUR civil liberties in their fraudulent display of concern for "our" protection. They are only concerned with protecting themselves. From us.

[Dan De Quille]

the country is run by the Executive bureaucracy in partnership with the courts.

Bingo. Bump.