Bushwacker

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Bushwhacker

[FreedomFriend]

Yes, and I'm pretty sure that the prescription drug plan (a dolled up term for the induction of socialized medicine) will be passed. If you've ever been to a Town Hall meeting, that's all the senior citizens talk about. Granted, I realize that prescription drugs are outrageously high. However, that has more to do with the non-ethical price gauging nature within the pharmaceutical industry.

[FreedomFriend]

I think that Americans should be steadfast in holding their government accountable. As it now stands, the Bush administration is ripping up the Constitution.

[FreedomFriend]

What are the disturbing trends you see?

[Texasforever]

As it now stands, the Bush administration is ripping up the Constitution.

Example please.

[terilyn]

Good, fine, great even, but you didn't answer my question.

You referred to Hitler when describing Bush and his policies.

So do you agree with the German official that stated that Bush was like Hitler?

[Always Right]

Not one of your points supports Bush being a globalists. Free-trade and open boarders are not examples of being a globalist, besides steel tariffs come to mind. The EU is the European problem and has nothing to do with US sovereignty. Homeland security has absolutely nothing to do with being a globalist. So what if the UN falls into line, it is the US doing the leading, not vice versa.

[FreedomFriend]

Overview of Changes to Legal Rights

Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:

* FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation.

* FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.

* FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.

* RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

* FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.

* RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

* RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.

[Amelia]

Yes, and I'm pretty sure that the prescription drug plan (a dolled up term for the induction of socialized medicine) will be passed. If you've ever been to a Town Hall meeting, that's all the senior citizens talk about.

Exactly. They want the government to take care of them.

Granted, I realize that prescription drugs are outrageously high. However, that has more to do with the non-ethical price gauging nature within the pharmaceutical industry.

It also has something to do with the high costs of research, development, liability insurance, and getting drugs approved by the FDA - because we want the government to protect us from medicines that don't work, or might have bad side-effects.

[FreedomFriend]

I'm seeing some similarities to between what has occurred since September 11 and what happened after Hitler firebombed the Reichstag.

[wimpycat]

You really don't want me to tell you.

[Texasforever]

All under the Patriot Act. An act passed by the Congress and by the constitution must be enforced by the President. So how is Bush "ripping up" the Constitution by adhering to it. BTW what is your source for that "analysis"?

[FreedomFriend]

"Free Trade" is a globalist issue, because it is stifling American innovation. It's a form of favortism of foreign goods to American goods, for heavy tariffs are placed on US made goods flowing into China, yet low tariffs are placed on Chinese goods flowing into America. Any type of trade that purposefully stifles American industry and forces them overseas is a global form of wealth redistribution. The WTO has played a significant role in America's "Free Trade".

[justshe]

WOW. You typed ALL that in 4 minutes. Impressive.

Or do you just tab to that part of your 'word' document and cut and paste and cut and paste?

Or perhaps....there is more than one FreedomFriend posting to this thread from different computers?

Which basement room did they give you at Dems~R~Us?

[FreedomFriend]

In regard to the EU, Bush stated that he supports the EU, that he essentially supports the dissolution of national character, for it is pushing trade and markets. With all the red tape attached to EU membership, that is not likely.

Homeland Security doesn't have anything necessarily to do with globalism, but it will likely be the engine that will push the Patriot Act. Thus, a blatant disregard of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

[FreedomFriend]

The act is a blatant disregard of the Constitution. Bush pressured the congress to pass it before the congress had the ability to look it over. Bush claimed that America's security was at risk, and that they should pass it.

[FreedomFriend]

I come prepared.

[deport]

Link to the cut n paste job are at least one version she uses

[John W]

"I'm seeing some similarities to between what has occurred since September 11 and what happened after Hitler firebombed the Reichstag."

Recommend a world history brush-up,heres something to get you started---

The Reichstag Fire
New elections had been set for March of 1933, and Hitler wanted to make sure that the Nazis would win these elections decisively. In the second election of 1932 they had lost votes, losing some of their seats in the Reichstag. Hitler was determined to ensure that it would not happen again. Most historians agree that Hitler arranged for a fire in the Reichstag building and arranged to make it seem that the Communists had set the fire.

Even before the fire was set, Hitler and his chief lieutenants drew up lists of enemies to be arrested and accused of the fire. On these lists were many leading members of the Reichstag, leading members of the Communist party inside Germany, and others who had spoken out from time to time against Hitler and against Nazism.

Luck was with Hitler; whether by plan or by accident, his storm troopers discovered a down-and-out Dutchman who happened to be a member of the Communist party. The Dutchman had been heard bragging that the only way to change the government in Germany would be to set fire to government buildings. It is now believed that it was actually the Brownshirts that set fire to the Reichstag building, using gasoline and other chemicals. In only a few minutes, the building was ablaze in the night. The Dutchman was immediately arrested; later he was tried and executed.

When Hitler, the new chancellor of Germany, arrived on the scene of the fire, he declared that the burning of the Reichstag was the work of the Communists. With the elections only a week away, he stepped up his campaign against "Marxists," the press, and organizations of the political left.

To the old President von Hindenburg the fire came as a great blow. As the Nazis quickly arrested many of Germany's foremost political leaders, their parties were left stunned and without direction. The government seemed near collapse. Hitler insisted that the Communists were trying to take over Germany by force, as they had taken over Russia in 1917. Something had to be done, he declared. And he knew just what it should be. He called for von Hindenburg to sign an emergency decree "for the protection of the people and the state."

The emergency decree canceled all individual and civil rights, placing power in the hands of Hitler and his party. It became illegal for Germans to express their opinions freely, or to assemble to hear political speeches or for any other reason. And the decree made it legal for Hitler and his Brownshirts to control what was published in newspapers or broadcast as news over the radio; to open mail, read telegrams, and listen in on telephone conversations; to search houses without warning; to confiscate personal property; and to rule by dictatorship in any of the states of Germany, whenever Hitler thought it necessary.

With von Hindenburg's decree on February 28, 1933, Hitler became Germany’s dictator.

[terilyn]

Deport, you are the best! Talk about coming prepared ;)

[wimpycat]

Tell me, FF, what makes your interpretation of the Constitution, of what's Constitutional or not, more valid or correct than mine?