- It should be obvious to everyone by now that, wittingly
or not, George W. Bush is in the process of creating a communist-style
form of government in the United States. As details emerge regarding his
new Department of Homeland Security, we discover that Bush and his band
of belligerent brothers have begun the process of turning the federal government
into a gargantuan police state not seen since Hitler's Third Reich and
Stalin's Soviet Union.
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- According to press reports, Bush plans to do the following:
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- 1. Merge 22 federal police and emergency agencies into
his new Department of Homeland Security. (Say hello to the new SS Corps.)
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- 2. Create standardized biometric travel documents ("Show
me your papers or your iris. Sieg Heil.")
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- 3. Develop "screening tools to predict human behavior,
such as 'hostile intent.'" (Hello Dept. of Pre-Crimes.)
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- 4. Allow federal police to search and seize at will.
(Goodbye 4th Amendment.)
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- 5. Allow federal police to incarcerate and indefinitely
hold suspects without arrest or warrant and with no legal recourse by the
person seized. (Goodbye 5th Amendment. Hello Gestapo.)
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- 6. Implement a national driver's license. (Hello National
ID.)
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- 7. Allow the U.S. military to conduct lethal operations
on U.S. soil. (Goodbye Posse Comitatus.)
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- 8. Allow the President to unilaterally procure taxpayer
dollars without the consent of Congress. (Goodbye U.S. Constitution.)
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- 9. Allow the federal government to act in secret. (Hello
East German Secret Police, Stasi. Goodbye Freedom of Information Act.)
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- 10. Create a "Domestic Informant" program whereby
millions of Americans are authorized to spy on their fellow citizens on
behalf of the federal government. (Hello Communist Amerika.)
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- According to the Sydney Morning Herald and other news
outlets, Bush plans to enlist 1 in 24 Americans into a new citizen-spy
department. This number dwarfs the number of citizen spies used by former
East-Bloc countries.
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- The Justice Department is scheduled to launch a pilot
program next month in 10 cities using 1 million informants. The SMH rightly
stated, "Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-
democratic states." It would seem that a "non-democratic"
state is exactly what Bush is creating.
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- In Nazi Germany, churches, pastors, and conservatives
assisted the creation of tyrannical government. That is exactly what is
happening right now in the United States. What we thought we needed to
fear from liberals, we find being championed by conservatives.
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- Right now, George Bush and his fellow travelers compose
the greatest threat to freedom and constitutional government that exists.
Instead of fighting terrorism, they are actually destroying the very principles
of liberty that they claim to be protecting.
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- America survived the attacks on September 11. It may
not survive the Bush administration.
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