Monday, August 16, 2004
Welcome to Your Shiny, New Police State
"They'rrrrre heeeeeerrrre..."0 comments
You thought they were joking.
Right-wing nut-job militias have holed up in bunkers around the country for decades now, arming themselves against what they've contended was the inevitable onslaught of federal troops declaring martial law in the U.S., putting an end to American freedom and liberty as we have come to know it.
We scoffed at their lunacy.
Over the last three years, easily tens of thousands of liberal and middle-of-the-road Americans have become increasingly fearful of the United States becoming a police state under the Bush administration overall, and the Justice Department headed by John Ashcroft in particular.
We laughed at their paranoia.
Well, scoff no longer. It's official; you no longer have any rights protected under what used to be called the Constitution of the United States of America.
F.B.I. Goes Knocking for Political Troublemakers
And it will only get worse.
"Political Troublemakers" created this country. "Political Troublemakers" are the men and women we study in school.
"Political Troublemakers" have put this country through the crucible of dissent for hundreds of years, making this nation stronger and forcing it to stay on the path of freedom and liberty. Three centuries' worth of selfish and powerful interests have attempted to steal this land's greatness and its riches from the American people. "Political Troublemakers" stopped them every time. Often at the cost of great personal sacrifice and, occasionally, bloodshed.
Today, your right to free speech is gone. Your right to dissent is in tatters.
As it stands now, the only greater peril for the future safety and stability of this country other than George W. Bush's re-election would be the election of John Kerry.
Not on its merits, but on its feared impact on this country.
We can now safely assume that there is no conceivable way that this Bush administration will relinquish power in any way at any time for any reason.
This is all about power. They've got it; they're not giving it up.
The Constitution be damned.
Period.
If they can do it peaceably, through the ballot, fine. If that doesn't work, we can now also safely assume that they will take any and all measures to assure the continuation of their grip on the power of this country.
If that means burning the Bill of Rights on the Washington Mall, no problem.
If that means martial law, then this administration says, so be it. If that means civil war, then this administration says, so be it. They have the reins of power, and all its perks, and the mighty, mighty advertising cudgel of "9/11" and "terrorism" (whatever that means), and they will now stop at nothing.
Through the administration's actions, we see this nation slide closer and closer towards becoming a fascist state.
Just as in Nazi Germany, those who propose and plan for evil are only a small percentage of those effecting deadly changes.
They are only as powerful as those legions who aid and abet their compact with the devil.
There are thousands of trained, competent Field Agents in the FBI. Many of them are fine people, with families, who care passionately about their jobs. It is up to them to avoid allowing themselves and their Bureau to be manipulated and molded into a hammer of evil.
These are the people who are going to look in the mirror one day, and have to accept the fact that they, personally, through their actions, assisted in the end of the United States of America.
That they struck a blow against Liberty.
Even if they are stuck "following orders," we all know that there is a quantum leap between simply driving past "a suspect's" house and filling out a form, and digging into some innocent American's life like a dog after a bone.
Everyone has a certain lattitude built into their job.
Each FBI agent and FBI office functionary will have to decide for themselves if they truly are Americans or simply the minions of thugs.
posted by Gotham 2:34 PM
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