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President Bush gave a Great Speech! Just one, teensy problem.
Josey1
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Don "Jet-Eye" Loucks Column posted weekly 21 September 2001 Great Speech! Just one, teensy problem. President Bush gave a wonderful speech -- his very best. The crisis of the attack on on American brought out the best in him. It made me feel proud, strong and warm, until he announced the creation of yet another federal bureaucracy: The Office of Homeland Defense. If that did not frightened you, just wait a little while and the results will indeed scare you; if you are lucky. The kind of tactics our government are already responsible for many deaths of the "unintended consequences" kind. There are scores of cases where police in the U.S. raided the wrong house, killing occupants. Police stop cars and ask the driver is he has any drugs or guns. After a negative response, the cop will then say: "Since you don't have any, you don;t mind if I search your car do you?" (The correct answer for the driver to give here is: "Hell, yes I mind! You want in my car, go get a warrant! And by the way, I want your supervisor and my lawyer on the scene pronto!") If the reader is someone who is vaguely familiar with his constitutional rights, he will get an inkling at what I am getting at. The government will be attempting to shame us into giving up our rights. They will say the same things that dictators have said all last century. Here are some in order of escalation they follow: We are conducting this search in the interests of national security. We would appreciate your cooperation. Please get out of your car so we can check it over. We had an anonymous tip that you might explosives in your home. Leave now and let us perform a sweep. [Then, later] No explosives were found. But we did come across these firearms which we are required by law to confiscate. Here is you receipt. This is a government check point! Get out of the car or be shot! [Blam! Blam! Blam!] "Those jerks didn't move fast enough for my liking!" Sound far-fetched? Such graduated terror happened several times last century -- all with the initial consent of the governed. You see, people allow it to happen. One must always remember human nature as it pertains to crisis. People are frightened of change. Terror attacks are an ultimate kind of "threatened change." Listen to the words of President Bush's speech and you will hear both reassurance and threat of change. Stick with Bush and change will be minimal. Go against Bush and be plunged into chaos. That goes for both foreign governments and Americans. Congress has been anxious to gain more power of the American people. The more information they can glean, the more they and others will know about individual habits. They will know what we respond to and what we buy. And what can be taxed. They will also learn what we will fight for, or against. But more than those areas of information, they will learn how to sell other changes to us. They will learn the words that work against our freedom at the same time assuring us our freedom will be safe. They will strive to make us feel happy about being taxed and unable to defend ourselves. They will get a steel grip on our lives and tell us when it is time for the old and ill when it is time for them to die. And the war they are protecting us from will never, ever end. After all, if it ends, what use will the Office of Home Defense be? Be forewarned. This is Jet-Eye, Over and Out.
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