Bush Pushes Gore Plan For Orwellian Government

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[Sir Gawain]

BUSH PUSHES GORE PLAN FOR ORWELLIAN GOVERNMENT

 

By Chuck Baldwin

June 11, 2002

NewsWithViews.com

Those who voted for G. W. Bush thinking they were getting a significantly different type of government from the Clinton-Gore years need to think again. Bush's proposal to consolidate federal law enforcement and civil defense capabilities is actually a replay of an old plan first submitted by Al Gore.

A June 10 CNS news report stated, "Some members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, were surprised by President Bush's proposed consolidation of federal law enforcement and civil defense capabilities under a new cabinet level Department of Homeland Security.

"But some are even more surprised to learn the plan has much in common with a nine-year-old idea hatched in the Clinton-Gore administration, which proposed a significant expansion of domestic police powers."

The report further stated, "Numerous components of President Bush's proposal, which were sketched out in a televised address last Thursday, are strikingly similar to a plan proposed by former Vice President Al Gore as part of the Clinton-Gore 'Partnership for Reinventing Government' in 1993."

The Bush-Gore plan to "reinvent government" is, in fact, nothing new. It is as old as tyranny itself - and that is exactly what the Bush-Gore plan is: a modern attempt to reinstall tyrannical government.

In the British newspaper, The Register, Thomas Greene states, "The real purpose (of Bush's proposal), clearly, is data acquisition, mining and manipulation on a gargantuan scale." He is right. Bush's reintroduction of the Clinton-Gore plan has shades of Hitler's SS corps. It is the beginning of a national police force in the United States.

Of course, when Al Gore submitted this plan back in 1993, vociferous opposition from the entire conservative community resisted it. As a result, the plan was summarily defeated.

However, things are different now. A Republican occupies the White House. Furthermore, the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington have created a "security-at-all-costs" mentality among the American people. Because of this, Bush will succeed in implementing the Clinton-Gore plan of freedom confiscation with little or no opposition.

What really takes the cake is the manner in which President Bush continues to coddle illegal aliens. He refuses to deport those whom U.S. law requires to be deported, he continues to promote the concept of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, he refuses to take serious measures to keep likely terrorists out of our country, yet, he seems determined to thoroughly dismantle constitutional protection of our liberties.

What conservatives would have never surrendered to Al Gore, they seem happy to acquiesce to George Bush. However, the Clinton- Gore plan to eviscerate America's liberties smells as rotten (even worse) when George Bush regurgitates it! So, what has happened to conservatives' smellers?

 

[Scholastic]

Wonderful post that says it all!

[Scholastic]

ping

[Jhoffa_]

Of course, we know that those who think like this author can be trusted to run and hide at the first trouble shrieking about their lost "rights."

Who is running and hiding exactly?

Seems to me the people demanding to be "protected" against anything and everything imaginable are the ones running and hiding.

[mindprism.com]

it is not so obvious that a complete reorganization is going to do anything.

A couple points.

Power is like gravity- unmolested, it self-consolidates. This takes no sinister intent and illustrates a political truth: More often than not, it is the naivete of those elected to the systemic dangers that is the issue rather than the malice of the individual.

Being the 'driver' the elect is swerving to protect his political life without regard to the course they nudge the nation upon.

That said, I still find it discomforting, very discomforting, that while Bush claims an independent investigation into 9-11 would detract important resources from the war on terror... reorganization of umpteen agencies with a deadline on 9-11-2002 is NOT a detraction.

This, IMO, is a type of 'political dodge' not only on Bushs part, but congress also -- a dodge that borders on (the impeachment legacy of) putting ones political career ahead of national interest.

The American people, truth be told, are in desperate need of the assurances such an investigation would provide- forget about the 'incompetence conspiracy'- I mean reinforcing the basic idea that the public is the ultimate inspector and has the means to induce the political heat neccessary to maintain future accountability and competence.

Who is working for who?

[redrock]

"....The guy should be institutionalized."

Hhmmm...sort of what they used to do in the Soviet Union...to anyone who disagreed with the official 'Party Line'......

Welcome to 'Amerika'!!!!!

redrock

[redrock]

BUMP...for a great article!!!

redrock

[VinnyTex]

sort of what they used to do in the Soviet Union..

And you're a bigger crank than Baldwin.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

	Sir Gawain, Thank you for posting this article.  It was great.
I particularly like the following statement: "What really takes the cake is the manner in which President Bush continues to coddle illegal aliens. He refuses to deport those whom U.S. law requires to be deported, he continues to promote the concept of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, he refuses to take serious measures to keep likely terrorists out of our country, yet, he seems determined to thoroughly dismantle constitutional protection of our liberties." Little boxes on the hillside...little boxes made of ticky-tacky...little boxes on the hillside and they all look just the same
Visit: Freeper Tips and Helps for posting photos, links and other HTML goodies. You can also bookmark the thread at:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/562247/posts "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."   .....  George Washington

[lakey]

It wouldn't take a whole lot of time away from the "War on Terrorism" for GWB to rescind at least a couple of Clinton's Executive Orders. Evidently, he has no intention of doing so. And that makes him very suspect.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[justshutupandtakeit]

Hyperbolic red herrings never add much to a substantive conversation. Our nation is under attack by a deadly enemy and must be protected from its attacks. You got a problem with that? Or did 9/11 never happen?

[That Subliminal Kid]

Wow. You use big words. I'm impressed.

[That Subliminal Kid]

Are you sure about that? Or should I not have used a capital 'L' ?

[Sir Gawain]

I'm sure.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Don't let it depress you too much.

[Native American Female Vet]

Hey newbie...member since June 11, 2002 If you have nothing to add to the topic of discussion and can only attack the poster of the thread....go back to DU

[Native American Female Vet]

Thanks for adding that link Pete

[headsonpikes]

I can assure you, the 'sadness' was purely ironic.

Your rhetoric isn't actually sad, that's what's known as a trope or metaphor.

Contrast with a simile..'you're as thick as a brick'.

It's easy, really.

[christine]

What is MOST disturbing to me is GWB's heavy handed willingness to turn the nation into a police state but at the same time do NOTHING about our outrageous immigration policies.

bingo!