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Protest The Patriot Act |
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by charles amsellem
Email: blackreb (nospam) earthlink.net (unverified!) |
05 Apr 2002
Modified: 08 Apr 2002 |
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there might be a protest against the partiot act in your town.Check the calendar for april 06. cartoon c 2002 by charles amsellem |
 there might be a protest against the partiot act in your town.Check the calendar for april 06. cartoon c 2002 by charles amsellem |
In the aftermath of the trajedies of September 11th, the Bush administration has used public sentiments over the events to legitimize his leadership. The controversial election left many americans questioning how much their vote matters after there was tampering with the electoral process in Florida where the president's brother is the governor of that state. Bush could still depend on the mainstream media for support of his programs as he appointed former Iran Contra criminals with barely a wimper from the press:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0109/iran-contra.html
The level of overall approval of his leadership was much lower before the 9/11 atrocities. The resulting shock over these events allowed the president to pass the Patriot Act; legislation that further sweeps away what was left of our civil liberties after the Clinton administration passed anti terrorism legislation in the wake of similar sentiments following the Oklahoma City bombing.
After 9/11 the president can count on strong discouragement of questioning his policies and actions. When cartoonist Mike Marland drew a picture of an airplane with the caption 'Bush Budget' flying towards twin towers labeled 'Social' and 'Security', there was an outcry from the White House. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was quoted by Reuters: "Equating the president's budget with a terrorist attack that killed 3,000 people is as wrong as wrong can be. This is not respectful of the families of those who lost their lives." The condemnation resulted in the the submission of the MONITOR's Editor Mike Pride, who initially gave the go ahead for the cartoon, to a public appology for running it.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/09/cartoon.mistake.ap/index.html
Many of the questions about 9/11 have lead more courageous journalists and others to equate more than just the president's budget to those events not to mention his respect for the families involved. The evidence and circumstances surrounding those events that are slowly coming to light indicate the strong possiblity that there was at least a standdown in the wake of forknowledge of the attacks. Media Analyst Barrie Zwicker has written a series of articles that raise some of these questions in his series entitled, "The Great Deception":
http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/resources_popup.htm#GreatDeceptionTranscripts
The emperor's new clothes has assembled a useful guide on the issue as well:
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm#1
The burning of the Reichstag in Germany on February 27, 1933, was the impetus to invest vast unquestioning powers on then Chancelor Adolf Hitler. The world will never know who was really behind that action but there is evidence nazi security forces were in part to blame. What is clear is that Hitler used these events to manipulate the german people towards submission or blind indifference to his policies that inevitably spelled the doom for his and many other countries. The Oklahoma City bombing and its lone nut explanation was successfully used to give national security forces in the United States unprecedented sway over our civil liberties and silence criticisms regarding the slaughter at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas. This time the Patriot Act sealed the nails on the coffin of our civil liberties. This time, they are doing the same thing and bringing us into a war as well. A war we cant ultimately win according to former CIA Senior Officer, Bill Christison.
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison1.html |
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"The Great Deception" is junk |
by David Young
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08 Apr 2002
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Barrie Zwicker, you've insulted my intelligence.
One instance of fighter jets investigating an incommunicado LearJet does not prove that the USAF routinely chases wayward aircraft. Oh, and thanks for the NTSB reference: I read the report. I understood it.
Did you?
I ask because reading comprehension is not your strong suit. For instance, you quote Shrub saying that his reaction to the first airplane crashing into the WTC was "there's one terrible pilot," and then you leap to conclusions,
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"Wait a minute! The president tells us he saw the incredible image of the first plane going in. He went ahead with an easily-cancellable appointment. Why? He tells us he knew his country was under attack, yet he continued to listen to a student talk about her pet goat, and such, for another 25 minutes. Why?"
I must have missed the part where he "tells us he knew his country was under attack" in the quote "there's one terrible pilot."
If your series on the "great deception" was facetious, it would be great art. Sadly, you're not kidding. Do you have no critical faculties? No respect for your readers? Or does something else make you produce supermarket tabloid-quality journalism? |
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what the hell are you talking about? |
by charles amsellem
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08 Apr 2002
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I didnt quote Shrub at all. I posted links to support almost every statement I have made so dont talk to me about reading compreshension.
also, you have isolated a single detail without taking the larger whole into the picture. If you read those sources, the statements I make are supported and valid. The tabloid media is the mainstream media that refuses to question ANY of the gaping holes in the govt's official story and very little questions about the insane policy that cannot succeed for anybody who isnt directly associated with war and oil profits. |
