Have a read of Phillip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly", "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said", or "VALIS".
This sounds very, very familiar to me, having read the aforementioned books - and he was in a shocked reaction to Tricky Dicky Nixon! The more things change, the more they stay the same! ;) I could weep ... Wesley Parish On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:56, (ARTEMIS) wrote: > > > (this is by Dr. Franics Boyle, law professor, writer, lawyer and long time > subscriber to PNEWS-L and it is from the special intro to a book he wrote > in 2002. It is very relevant to the current erosion of liberties and the > rapid shift toward fascism in these United Police States of America.. > Hank) > > > Police State - While Bush failed to get a formal declaration of war that > would have rendered him a constitutional dictator, clearly Attorney > General John Ashcroft and his right-wing Federalist Society lawyers took > every piece of regressive legislation off the shelf, tied it all into what > they called an antiterrorism bill, and then rammed it through Congress, > giving it the appropriately Orwellian name of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. > According to one report, Ashcroft's first draft would have had Congress > suspend the ancient Writ of Habeas Corpus � the necessary prerequisite for > imposing a police state in the United States of America. Many Members of > Congress publicly admitted that they did not even bother to read the > Ashcroft Police State Act. Another Congressman said basically: �Right, but > there's nothing new about that.� Interestingly enough the so-called > liberal Democrats in the House and the Senate were willing to give Bush > Jr. and Ashcroft more police state powers than the conservative > Republicans in the House. But there are no real differences that matter > between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to promoting America's > self-proclaimed �Manifest Destiny� to control the World and now Outer > Space too. (October 20, 2004) > * It's Still the Oil, Stupid! > > http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/MachiavelliRedux > > > > ----- > / o o \ > ===OO=====OO============================================= > (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! > Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) > http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) > http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) > ========================================================= > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> 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/
