Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty

[measl at mfn.org]

>       "We live in a land governed by plurality of opinion in an open
> electorate, but we are now under siege by adherents of a
> fundamentalist, totalitarian belief system that tolerates no dissent,"
> Attorney General John Ashcroft said. 

Yeah, the fascist government of the united states...

> "Our most basic
> American values are threatened by an enemy opposed to everything for
> which our flag stands. That is why I call upon all
> Americans to submit to wiretaps, e-mail monitoring, and racial
> profiling. Now is not the time to allow simplistic, romantic
> notions of 'civil liberties' and 'equal protection under the law' to get
> in the way of our battle with the enemies of freedom."

Jesus christ!!!  What was that about watering the tree???

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at 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...
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