It IS Happening Here

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:00:00 GMT
# Paul Craig Roberts at Counterpunch - A War Waged by Liars and Morons - does Bush even know why he's waging a war on Iraq? My take: probably not. But his handlers know. They're using it to get more power by destroying civil liberties in America and England. War? Just say, "No!" [grabbe]

# Bob Wallace at LewRockwell.com The Militarization of the Police - why it has been a really bad idea to turn the police into the very standing army our founders warned us about. [lew]

This change [20% to 95% shooters from WWII to Viet Nam] was created by desensitizing soldiers to killing, by teaching them the enemy is not human, by teaching them to not think but instead follow orders without question. When the police become militarized, and are trained with modern military techniques, they're being taught the same thing: those defined as "perps" are not human. That's how a grown man can stick a submachine gun in the face of a six-year-old boy. He's not thinking; he's just "following orders."

# Chuck Baldwin at The Price of Liberty - Remembering The Lessons Of Germany's Past - a little history lesson in how the German people, good Christian folk, were hoodwinked into atrocity by the nazis. Think it can't happen here? It has already started. Will Bush be another Hitler? Probably not, but if he wants to be, or if the next president wants to be, we're headed in a direction that will enable that. [price]

# John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute - How Liberty Dies: The Patriot Reauthorization Act - the Senate Intellegence Committee has approved reauthorization and expansion of the U.S.A. T.R.A.I.T.O.R. Act. What can they be thinking? [kaba]

Since the passage of the Patriot Act six weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 378 local and county governments and seven state legislatures representing millions of Americans have passed resolutions or ordinances opposing aspects of the Patriot Act that they believe to be at odds with the United States Constitution. One City Council member from Arcata, Calif., described his town's ordinance as "a nonviolent preemptive attack" on the federal government's revision of the Bill of Rights. Yet our government continues to ignore these concerns and push through its own agenda.

At a massive 342 pages, the Patriot Act violates at least six of the ten original amendments known as the Bill of Rights--the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments--and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth as well.

# Claire Wolfe - Darryl vs. Goliath - a review of The Castle, a movie showing an Australian family fighting emminent domain of their home for the expansion of the nearby airport. [claire]

Darryl -- helped along by the most spectacularly incompetent storefront attorney in Melbourne -- has a few lessons to learn about the justice system and the prospects of one little man fighting against a multi-billion dollar public-private project. But this being comedy, not reality, the Australian justice system and a handful of billionaires have a lot to learn from Darryl and his friends, as well.

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