They HAVE accomplished what they wanted---they have taken our rights of privacy away. More will follow.
"Gary P. McNeel, Jr." wrote: > What did I say a month ago? More government. More budget. More rhetoric. > What the hell is the CIA and FBI and NSA and the other 17 "Homeland Defense" > organizations for. > > Now the military can't get this guy bin Laden. The Brit populance is unhappy > about all this. There are no clear objectives (anyone remember Powell saying > what you should have BEFORE starting a war, which is not a declared War, on > something nebulous). Where is Bush and all his "We are going to kick their > ass", rhetoric. That is all it was, face appearance to drive up the approval > ratings. > > -Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:21 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Ashcroft to announce details ofa new terrorist threat.. > > > > > > I'd agree...to a point. While I feel that the government has the duty to > > tell us, even more than it is now. I dont feel it was necessary for > > Attorney General Ashcroft himself to hold a press conference right in > > the middle of the evening news to get the message out. That's a little > > overdoing it, if you ask me. So either the threat is very real and very > > serious (we will know in a few days...), or more than likely he is > > playing politics with the new Director of Homeland Security Mr. > > Whatsisface from Pennsylvania. > > The Attorney General is usually the chief law enforcement official for > > the entire country. With the new Homeland security office taking over > > whatever it is they are taking over, they are going to get all of the > > glory for any good news in this situation. So in the truest American > > tradition, Ashcroft is going to play the, whoever gets on television the > > most wins card. > > > > On kind of a tangent, we got a call on a web site for a company that > > makes some device that they are selling to the Homeland Security > > department. A whole new government bureaucracy and it took less than a > > month to put the red tape in motion. We couldn't get rid of it now even > > if we tried. That's one way to get the public spending again in this > > economy. Just spend it for them. > > > > rant rant rant...blah blah blah > > > > jon > > > > Angel Stewart wrote: > > > > >*rolls eyes* > > > > > >Wait..didn't they say this two weeks ago? And the week before that? > > >Weren't these attacks supposed to happen on Halloween? > > > > > >God I would hate to be living in America now. > > >Pretty soon the public is going to get so saturated with these > > >'warnings' that they're going to annoy them. > > > > > >Tell me..what is the PURPOSE of telling the public that there could be a > > >massive Terrorist attack in the next week, but we don't know what it is, > > >who's going to do it, or where it is going to be ? If that's true then > > >people should be FIRED! > > >Starting from the TOP of the CIA/FBI and going down, because that is > > >bullshit. > > > > > >All this could be is the widely known "Cover Your Ass" scheme. So if it > > >does happen they can say," Hey..we knew about it this time..and we told > > >you.." > > > > > >And hope the public doesn't say, "What the f***? You took away our > > >privacy, increased your budget, increased your powers and did away with > > >judicial review of many of your procedures, and you STILL can't catch > > >these people?" > > > > > >*mutter* > > >*grumble* > > > > > >Morons in congress..morons running the blasted Defender of the Free > > >West. > > > > > >-Gel > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
