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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean stand by the President."
President Theordore Roosevelt
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Remarks of a "senior official" of the Bush White House, as quoted by Bob Woodward: "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors"
This is the voice of raw power and sheer arrogance.
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"One, it is bad policy for our government to be spying on American citizens through the National Security Agency. Secondly, it's bad to be spying on Americans without court oversight. And thirdly, it's bad to be spying on Americans apparently in violation of federal laws against doing it without a court order."
GOP Congressman Bob Barr
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"The sad thing is that the truth is relatively simple. What people using terror in the fashion of London are quite capable of doing is killing and maiming randomly, and in large numbers, and perhaps in the process revealing to us both how fragile and how strong our world actually is.""What they are completely incapable of doing, no matter what George Bush says, is taking our liberties and freedoms away. They can't take anything away. Only WE can do that.
"Tom Egelhardt - July 11, 2005
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"Neither ideas nor ideologies are to be blamed for the current state of affairs, for our imprisonment in the bubble. Americans are not captive of religion, but of religious quacks; they are not captive of free enterprise, but of predatory capitalists; they are not captive of some repressive form of government, but of corrupt politicians that milk the ideals of democracy for their own selfish ends."
Ben Tanosborn
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Well, that does about sum up my feelings.
Please search you own soul. You may find that you also have uneasy, very uneasy, feeling about the state of affairs in our great country. If you do, then you have an obligation to try to do something about taking back governance from the fascists in control of the White House.
1 comment:
The reason Bush is so worried about criticism is that he knows that public opinion can, and will pull the plug on the war in Iraq. Bush shout stay the course all he wants but public opinion can force congress to stop funning the war.
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