On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 keyser-soze@hushmail.com wrote:

Unlike America's Most Wanted the new dire but vague warnings are unlikely to cause citizens to uncover a massive new plot, I doubt they would have uncovered the 911 even if predictions of impending trouble have been announced a few days prior. Since Congress gave him virtually everything he asked for the next step is martial law, though how that might help uncover any new plots is beyond me.

Like we have "rule of law" now, with Shrub telling us to pass laws he wants, or have them installed anyway via executive order. I've long wavered over whether to fight these things or encourage them, as the encouraging may prove to be the more useful (i.e., be sufficiently infuriating to wake some sheeple up). I think Shrub and Friends have provided the perfect vehicle to help us return the US to it's *Constitutional* roots. We just give them *everything* they ask for, then sit back and see how long it takes for some "recently awoken" to provide a little high velocity lead poisoning party - bringing his beer-gut buddies of course (revolution wouldn't be any fun without beer and bullets, right?). Long live the Reich! Hail <murmur>whoeverthefuck</murmer>! -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------