Brad, I think the long list of Americans who have been incarcerated without due process should be publicized.
Perhaps you could start with a dozen or so. Don't go back to Lyndon's infiltration of Viet-Nam war protest groups - just those over the last few years. Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 11:37 AM To: Karen Watters Cole Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] The most profitable consumer goods yet (prayers?) Karen Watters Cole wrote: >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. > > Yes, maybe Bush is like a cheap plane ticket: Since it makes the traveller stop and switch planes en route it takes them a bit longer to get where they're going. (And where one has no rational hope of stopping something bad from happening, any delay is an opportunity for something unexpected to felicitously intervene.) There are two kinds of military takeovers that could happen in the United States, and you have described the more likely one (the neocons taking over the military to impose "martial law", which would, likely, largely consist in Robert Borkean marital law [Remember Bork saying there is no constitutional right to privacy?]. Can't you just see it: MPs confiscating contraceptives from pharmacies and the FBI breaking into people's houses to search for them in people's medicine cabinets? But I still have a fantasy of a different kind of military takeover: That the U.S. military would get so fed up with being impressed [aka hijacked...] by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Rice-... regime into doing things they know are bad, not just for the country but also for the military itself, that they itself would take control, getting rid, among others but surely among the first, of Mr. Rumsfeld. What a shame Colin Powell doesn't hear his country's call [get that man a hearing aid!].... America's calling, [General Powell], You know what it's all about.... Is there something we can do to save the land we love.... (--popular song, ref. lost) \brad mccormick >Nixon's paranoia was nothing compared to this inner circle. > Give 'em credit for manoeuvering "us" into a situation where heads we lose and tails they win. >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 > > > -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
