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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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