USA "Patriot" Act Passes House, TRT Recruiting
GeeksWithGuns - Terrorist Hunting License - hehe.
Tyranny Response Team - Alerts - Copied below in its entirety. I removed the silly flag from the top of this blog's left-hand column. What our government is doing is no longer silly. I changed it to the TRT eagle. [geneice]
ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT
This is a national alert. We need to get the word out around the United States. We are going into a major recruiting push. Please everyone flood the internet with messages about the TRT. It is now time to ramp up the support. We are heading into a time when protecting our rights is going to be harder than ever. We are going to see a rash of bills and proposals aimed at stomping out our rights and the TRT is here to say NO. Get the word out. Also some of our state chapters are in need of help please visit STATEBYSTATE in our site to see what each state needs. Lets get this going. Make flyers post flyers tell your neighbors lets work together and build up a new and improved TRT.
Dan MacDonald at WKRN Nashville - Cars at Airport Subject to Search - now they're searching cars and arresting people who have rifles in their trunks in airport parking lots. Stealing their guns too. Fascist bastards! [market]
PJ O'Rourke at The Telegraph (UK) - 'I believe the terrorists wanted a nuclear attack on Baghdad' - Mr. O'Rourke is interviewed by Clive James at a fundraiser for the Red Cross. Terrorism, Israel/Palestine, Ireland, U.S. foreign policy. [mind]
I think that terrorism is essentially a reactionary thing - it really has more to do with fighting back a world that is changing. The reason for much of terrorism in the world is that we are moving towards an open, liberal, cosmopolitan, tolerant, modern indeed middle-class world, and it terrifies certain people who have a hold on, and a power over, other people by virtue of things that are not tolerant, not liberal, not modern, not middle class. It isn't because they are intent on winning that terrorists resort to these things, it is because they are losing.
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I firmly believe that these terrorists wanted, indeed foresaw, a nuclear attack on Kabul or Baghdad or perhaps both. The reason they want that sort of thing is that it would help galvanise the people who they consider to be their potential allies but who are presently not their allies - millions and millions of people across the globe who are Muslim, but Muslim as I am Methodist. I consider myself a pretty religious person but I am not looking to create an absolutist Methodist state.
From The Rattler:
The enemy is invisible: hiding in plain sight. Will you fight for America? You should. Does this rapidly homogenizing proto-police-state look like "America" to you? Tomorrow you will want the freedom you had yesterday - but while you sleep today, you'll sign on the dotted line and give all of it away. Make some noise - before it's too late.
John McCabe at loony.org - People are willing to give up freedoms if it means more security - Commentary on the new fascist state compliments of the USA Patriot Act, H.R.3162, which was passed yesterday morning by a 2/3 majority suspending the rules to pass it. 66 representatives, including Dr. Ron Paul, voted to preserve our liberties. 9 didn't vote. The other 357 should, in my extremely angry opinion, be tried for treason. If convicted by a jury of their peers, they should be hanged.
That's right, people; the House Judiciary Committee was overruled because of those annoying civil liberties again. Most likely on the chopping block? The usual suspects, of course: the first, second, fourth, and fifth amendments. Keep an eye out for the sixth and eighth as well. It's a millennium sale, they all must go! No, really...they MUST GO.
Imagine how safe the WTC would have been had the feds been breathing down all our necks for the past twenty years.
Then again, I wonder if it would have even existed?
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We've been set up, we as a nation. We were told that a long struggle was to ensue, with casualties, and sacrifices to be made.
In other words, there will be no end to this. This isn't a bill to catch some bad guys, this is to change the governments role in managing our country, forever.
We've been told that we will smoke the terrorists out. We've been given lots of cool sound bites about the large hammer the United States can wield against any threat.
We were not told that it would be used against its own citizens.
This bill looks a lot like the hammer. I can't see it any other way.
I dare you all to appear as anything but a nail.
Brock N. Meeks at MSNBC - First, brand all the children - more on the national ID and the crazy USA "Patriot" Act. [geneice]
Am I the only one to notice how sick and twisted it is for Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy to be vocally advocating the establishment of a national ID card system? Just a few years ago, these two baby billionaires couldn't be dragged kicking or screaming to Washington, and now they're pimping for a national database system that could track you and me from cradle to grave?
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Even after he was shot, Reagan rebuffed the lunacy of a national ID card. Legend has it that during a Cabinet meeting, when the ID card topic was raised in relation to immigration, Reagan deadpanned: "Maybe we should just brand all babies."
A request from Linda Hamilton:
Jane Swift made a recent statement that she wasn't spending any time campaigning because she was soooo concerned about terrorism and public safety. Please call her office and ask if that is true why does she ignore the fact that the state and local police terrorize the people of the commonwealth on a daily basis. Plus the fact there have been recent stories in the Herald about the Boston police harrassing and beating up black kids who are waiting for the T. Why hasn't she done anything about that? Her number is (617)727-0786
rawa.org is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of
Afghanistan. They don't like the Northern Alliance any more than the
Taliban. [brianf]
RAWA statement on the terrorist attacks in the US concludes:
While we once again announce our solidarity and deep sorrow with the people of the US, we also believe that attacking Afghanistan and killing its most ruined and destitute people will not in any way decrease the grief of the American people. We sincerely hope that the great American people could DIFFERENTIATE between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of fundamentalist terrorists. Our hearts go out to the people of the US.RAWA statement on the US strikes on Afghanistan says:
Only an overall uprising can prevent the repetition and recurrence of the catastrophe that has befallen our country before and with or even without the presence of the UN peace-keeping force this uprising can pave the way for the establishment of an interim government and preparation for elections. We believe that once there is no foreign interference, especially of a fundamentalist type, all ethnic groups of all religions, with no regard to the devilish designs of the fundamentalists, will, prove their solidarity for achieving the most sacred national interests for the sake of a proud and free Afghanistan.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) asks that all anti-fundamentalist, freedom and democracy-loving and pro-women's rights forces and also the ex-king of Afghanistan, before it is too late, must play their role in the organizing of mass-uprising and as well thwart the plans of the internal and external enemies of Afghanistan.
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