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Return of the McCarthy Era?

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Homeland Security Department issued a terrorist advisory for local law enforcement agencies to watch for home landers who have “expressed dislike of attitudes and decisions of the US government.”

At a Labor Day 2002 Pittsburgh picnic for Bush’s photo-op with work-people, a 65 year old retired steel worker was denied access for wearing a sign “The Bush Family surely love the poor, they make many of us,” though he was engulfed by other sign carriers in favor of Bush. The police arrested him for disorderly conduct. At his trial a detective testified that the local police was instructed by the Secret Service to confine people making statements against the administration. The judge threw out the case.

In St. Louis Bush appeared in 2003; sign protestors were shuttled off to a zone out of sight of the street where the President would be, and worse, the media could not cover the zone. The President visited Columbia, So. Carolina last year. Amid a sea of admirers some 200 yards away from the Bush, stood a brave soul, perhaps indiscreet, with a sign “No War for Oil.” He was escorted to a fenced in zone a half mile away because of the “content of the sign.”

Crawford Texas police believes that without a protest permit wearing a “peace” button would be considered violating city ordinance.

[Taken from The Nation reprint of Jim Hightower’s book, Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush]

 

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Reply #51 from JoeUser Forums Top
Na, Baker, you're just being YOU!
Reply #52 from PolMach Forums Top
Attacking Bush policy wasn't your intent when you were attacking the Patriot Act? I'll quote you again. As I have mentioned before, the Patriot Act was signed into law by both Democrats and Republicans. You know this. No matter how hard you try, you can't stuff words in to my mouth, just as well as you can't claim that "they" means the Bush Administration. "These laws" are laws that many of us believe benefit the nation. They are laws that people like yourself were screaming for after 9-11" I'll reiterate what I said before, you don't know who I am, what would ever lead you to believe that I would ever want such laws? To me, 9/11 would happen no matter what. Things such as this are not fully avoidable and I see no reason to change our country in such burdensome ways to the citizen. So far, I HAVE been debating the issues. I'm not, however, gonna let the whole "Condemn Bush for being lax and then liken him to Nazism when he responds" garbage slide without response You seem to look, in glee, for any type of anti-bush sentiment in any user's post. Going so far as to try to say that my use of the word "they" automatically means Bush? Do you understand what I am trying to communicate to you? I hope. Bakerstreet, you may want to re-examine as to why you have received such a response from me. I believe you thoroughly know why, but are doing your best to ignore and argue your way out of it. You seem to be the type that is very good at dishing it out, but not at taking it. I'll consider this over and done with, but remember, anytime you try to trade barbs with me, you will receive your due.
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Reply #53 from JoeUser Forums Top
Deference: You used a quote that likened the current political policies to a slippery slope toward concentration camps. I called you on it pretty civilly, and got a tirade describing me posing naked in my bathroom with a Hitler moustache made of my own excrement. That isn't a retort you can easily spin.

The conversation is up there for anyone to read, starting about #37 or so. I don't want to see steve's blog any more hijacked than it is. 'nuff said.