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POLITICS OF CONTROL

Might the Republican strategy be to keep Americans afraid
so they will keep voting Republican?
Way too many have been fooled into voting for the very people
who have caused the terror in the first place.

For the critics of the administration
the Republican strategy appears to be
to attack, defame, cast apersions, insult,
plus, the favorite of terrorists,
to intimidate.


In Defense of Freedom

The Illusion of Normality.  Never in the 229 years of United States history has this government “of, by and for the people” been in greater peril. Not during the Civil War, not during the great depression, and not during the Second World War or the Cold War which followed.
Can you believe this? If not, you are in the company of a majority of Americans

---- Ernest Partridge, PhD., The Crisis Papers, October 18.2005

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What is " Bush / Cheney's " " daddy's war " in Iraq Is doing to the U.S.A.? ---

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POLITICS OF CONTROL

Keep in mind that:
The Patriot Act creates a conflict between the government not trusting the people
and how much the people can trust the government.
To:
Senators and Congressmen,
please Vote for America:
Vote Against Continuing Iraq War --- Vote Against Renewing and/or expanding the Patriot Act
Iraq on the Record --- Search "Iraq on the Record"

and

To the people:
for those Senators and Congressmen who fail to Vote for America,
please "Vote the Bums Out!"
They took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and voting for
Continuing Iraq War and/or expanding the Patriot Act
fundamentally violates that oath.


Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
----Benjamin Franklin

"Wrong is still wrong even if everybody's doing it. And right is still right even if nobody's doing it."
----Anon

"reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
----Richard Feynman

Centuries ago, Julius Caesar admitted:
"Beware of the leader who beats the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into patriotic fervor,
for patriotism is a double-edged sword. It emboldens the blood and narrows the mind. And
when the drums of war have reached fever pitch and the blood boils with hate
and the mind has closed,
the leader will have no need to seize the rights of the citizenry. Rather,
the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."


POLITICS OF CONTROL



"UK film at Cannes says terror fears exaggerated " By Erik Kirschbaum, May 14, 3:01 AM (ET)
"The Power of Nightmares" by filmmaker and senior BBC producer Adam Curtis argues:

"Bush and Blair have used what he says is the largely illusory fear of terror and hidden webs of organized evil following the September 11, 2001, attacks to reinforce their authority and rally their nations."

and
"The Power of Nightmares: Baby It's Cold Outside" from BBC News, Last Updated: Friday, 14 January, 2005, 12:07 GMT
explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion."

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    "It [The widespread terrorism threat] is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media."

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  • Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment

  • Blatent Disregard for International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
    The Americas Amnesty International Regional overview 2004
    "The apparent high-level [American] architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera, because they may find themselves under arrest." -- Amnesty’s U.S. director, William Schultz

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