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October 16, 2006 at 00:23:50

Fear of Tyranny Sweeping America

by Sherwood Ross     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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My recollection is fear of President Bush today is infinitely greater than fear of Senator Joe McCarthy back in the Fifties. McCarthy whipped anti-Communist sentiment to paranoid heights but he was only a Senator. He couldn't start a war on his own or reach out and have people arrested under any Patriot Act.

Now there is a president wielding virtual dictatorial powers who has deceitfully invaded Iraq, where reportedly 650,000 civilians have been killed, has threatened the use of nuclear weapons, operates secret prisons around the world, and implies his critics are unpatriotic. What's his next step?



Yes, it is happening before our eyes: the nation that gave the world the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Four Freedoms, and played an historic role in framing the UN Charter, is witnessing the evisceration of its civil liberties. Administration officials beating the war drums about terrorism abroad are widely suspected of being capable of unleashing it at home.

Am I scared? You betcha. Gangrene spreads.
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(Sherwood Ross is an American reporter. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)

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Sherwood Ross has worked as a publicist for Chicago; as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and workplace columnist for Reuters. He has also been a media consultant to colleges, law schools, labor unions, and to the editors of more than 100 national magazines. A civil rights activist, he was News Director for the National Urban League, a talk show host at WOL Radio, Washington, D.C., and holds an award for "best spot news coverage" for Chicago radio stations for civil rights reporting. He is the author "Gruening of Alaska,"(Best Books)and several plays about Japan during World War II, including "Baron Jiro," and "Yamamoto's Decision," read at the National Press Club, where he is a member. His favorite quotations are from the Sermon on The Mount.

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Fear of US in other countries is staggering.

The US has no friends because America has stated that it has total dominance to do as it pleases in space, bioweapons, chemical weapons, atomic weapons, spying on all other countries and will not hesitate to use force against any nation for reasons that the US determines. US defense department and Lord Bush and the sycophants in the other branch have told the world, "you're either with us or perish". It is up to the defense and the decider to determine who is against us.

by Jim Reinhart (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 60 comments) on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 11:57:42 AM
 


I'm a strong believer in diplomacy. I've had enough of the Bush addministrations warmongering.
RM MerrillI'm a strong believer in diplomacy. I've had enough of the Bush addministrations warmongering.

On "Fear of Tyranny"

Yes indeed, it is scary and that is why we can't let fear of retribution overcome our inherited right to dissent. Our thoughts should be focused on bringing an end to this psycotic war, the gutting of our Constitution and the illegal wheelin' and dealin' by our elected representitives. At no time in the history of The United States of America have our laws been trampled and our lives put in danger because of a dictatorial administration. If we continue on this path we will pay dearly. Make a stand and do the right thing on election day. It's still our right and in numbers lies victory over these Tyrants.

by RM Merrill (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments) on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 6:02:45 PM
 


Author of "The Politics of Extraterrestrials...Connecting the Dots" ISBN 0-9765223-0-6
PatrickAuthor of "The Politics of Extraterrestrials...Connecting the Dots" ISBN 0-9765223-0-6

The Bill of Rights

The arbitrary use of force that occurred during the French revolution is what inspired the creation of the Bill of Rights.

America now stands fully exposed as a "Criminal Autocracy" run at the behest of the International Members of the Merchant Murder class.

If not for nuclear weapons, our stand up comic in Chief has the potential to be hilarious.

The possession of nuclear weapons in the hands of a person who has promised to use them, and has never shied away from killing any man woman or child, should give all the human race pause to consider the magnitude of the crime, that has been perpetrated against the body of humanity.

Our current Fiend is merely carrying on with a decision that was made many years ago; to kill the mass of the human race with nuclear weapons.

This explains why the presence of "ET" remains classified above top secret. The only reason we still exist is due to the continuing intervention, from a group of higher level powers, that we do not even know who they are.

What we are facing is not merely a Fiend, it is rather a large well organized classes of "Fiends," committed to the absolute destruction of the human race with the use of nuclear weapons.

They understand all too well what happens when revolutions come. They planned long ago to kill everyone, to prevent what they suspect will be.

The Fiend class recognizes no government, other than whom ever that they can rob and murder.

Don't feel bad about the American government going into the shit can of history, the day the decision was made to destroy the human race with nuclear weapons, that was the day the government ended. Way back in 1947.

What more is there to say?

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by Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 384 comments) on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 1:13:28 AM
 


I am a 47 years old,married and have a 17 year old daughter.My hobbies are bicyling, weight training and off road motorcycling.I have lived in a midwestern red state my entire 46 years.Now that I have reached middle age I have become interested in politics and its related fields of study.I dont often think of things being either liberal or conservative,I like to veiw political events in an objective manner and find the agenda or reason that a bill or policy is brought to bear.Simply put seeking ...

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Gary DensonI am a 47 years old,married and have a 17 year old daughter.My hobbies are bicyling, weight training and off road motorcycling.I have lived in a midwestern red state my entire 46 years.Now that I have reached middle age I have become interested in politics and its related fields of study.I dont often think of things being either liberal or conservative,I like to veiw political events in an objective manner and find the agenda or reason that a bill or policy is brought to bear.Simply put seeking ...

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Fear of tyranny

The Bush administration has shown that can or will do about anything to further its agenda. Peoples fear of a repressive dictatorship emerging from the GOP is not unfounded. What drives the Republicans to seek total power over the citizens of this great country? My opinion is the republican party has become a spineless slave to the corporate agenda. If our countries population is completely subdued then Bush and his fellow Republicans can turn America into a plutocracy or paradise for corporate rulers and the wealthy elite.

Corporate campaign money and influence is the real cause of this new found tyranny not Bush. They routinely buy polticians he is not the only corporatist. People should understand its our corporations who wish to enslave the citizens of America and their unbridled greed and deciet must be stopped for national security reasons. Multinational corporations have no sense of loyalty or patriotism they only seek out profit with no regard for the effects their actions may have on American citizens.Through clever education efforts about Adam Smith and free trade, corporations have fooled many people into believing a missrepresented theory and thus have taken control of our country. NAFTA is a prime example.

by Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 208 comments) on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 5:29:13 PM
 

 

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