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=============================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:09 AM Subject: TRUCKERS UNITE! Fw: CAW Local 199 Vice-President's Column: Descent into Darkness Forward from mart Via the Canadian Autoworkers Union, Local 199 - (CLC-AFL-CIO) Fw: CAW Local 199 Vice-President's Column: Descent into Darkness TRUCKERS UNITE! UNION NOW! TEAMSTERS NOW!! ********************************************* ====================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:04 AM Subject: CAW Local 199 Vice-President's Column: Descent into Darkness Descent into Darkness People concerned with the well being of workers and protecting democratic rights should be alarmed by the results of the U.S. elections. They produced a decisive victory for Bush and the far right of the Republican Party. The implications of this are very far reaching. Consider the following things. The clique around Bush control the White House and can now claim to have a legitimate popular mandate. Their allies now have enlarged majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. These things will give Bush the ability to stack the U.S. Supreme Court by filling upcoming vacancies on the court with those who think exactly like him. The net result will be to give Bush's regime a stranglehold over all three branches of the U.S. government. This will effectively end the system of checks and balances designed to curb abuses of power. This will also mean that the rich and powerful and their allies in the religious right will set the agenda for the U.S. within a system resembling a one party state. The strengthened position of the religious right, whose votes produced Bush's re-election, will, in the process, seriously undermine the democratic principle of separation of Church and State. A political atmosphere of growing intolerance of those with different view is consequently a real and present danger in the U.S. We could see a return to the kind of persecution that took place during the McCarthy era in the 1950s when many people's lives were destroyed because of their political associations and beliefs. Worsening government repression is already a fact of life in the U.S. The passage into law of Patriot Act has already resulted in hundreds of citizens being held for weeks and even months without being charged and without being given access to a lawyer. The Patriot Act has also greatly expanded the ability of the U.S. government to spy on its citizens without their knowledge. Worst of all, the Patriot Act reversed changes made in the 1970s in response to the repression and abuses of power that marked Richard Nixon's administration and set the stage for the Watergate scandal. Indeed, it is not coincidental that U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld both held important positions in Nixon's White House. Many people expect to see the Patriot Act strengthened during the second term of a Bush Administration. This is a real possibility because the U.S. Congress is now dominated by people who continue to support the Patriot Act. In the wake of Bush's re-election and despite the political repression it will bring a resurgence of social resistance to his regime's agenda is certain to develop and opposition to the war in Iraq is certain to grow as the U.S. casualty count continues to rise. Labour struggles will undoubtedly be part of this resistance despite the timid, right-wing and weak leadership of organized labour in the U.S. Insofar as what happens in the U.S. is certain to have a profound impact upon us we have a real interest in supporting the development of that resistance and the defeat of everything Bush's regime represents. We must clearly show whose side we are on. ============================================ TRUCKERS UNITE! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/truckersunite To Subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para enviar un mensaje,h�ganlo a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/VL0olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kominform2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
