If it wasn't for the line of succession, one could understand someone lamenting that that hand-grenade malfunctioned in Georgia -- damned Soviet forced-labor state industries that only produced junk!
Oh, God forbid, no. We do not want anything to happen to Bush2. May he have nothing more than knee problems until after Jan. 22, 2009. At least when JFK was shot, there wasn't this concept of world terrorism, although the Cold War dynamics still applied. Same prayer for ex Prez Ford, Carter, Bush1 and Clinton. In the event there is even a thwarted attempt on his life, we would not only have a vindictive, validated Cheney and an unleashed Rumsfeld, but we are highly vulnerable to martial law in the event of an assassination, never mind the Shadow Government in the event of another major attack. Nixon's paranoia was nothing compared to this inner circle. These are the people who floated the idea of using cable installers and appliance repairmen acting as homeland security spies. The end justifies the means in this crowd, and the trampling on constitutional checks and balances would be severe, perhaps fatal. The Dept of Homeland Security just got approval in a rider attached to the budget omnibus bill and signed by Bush2, to waive any and all laws along the borders, ostensibly to construct security fencing and police against infiltration, but that could easily be redefined and extended now that it is law. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
