Marinate the airwaves, print media and American minds
with a shock and awe bouillabaisse of your views
with relentless, ritual repetition of propaganda
via newspapers, talk radio and Evening Entertainnews
with carefully orchestrated images of the event
- 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11. -
a 24/7 blitzkreig of terror by the best means
of manufacturing consent ever invented.
Want to give police and military more power
for home invasions and warrantless searches?
Wire taps on citizens? A National I.D.?
The ability to detain citizens without charges?
The People will react with "Somebody DO something!"
and that something will dovetail quite precisely
with what it was you wanted in the first place,
now presented as a way out of this crisis.
9/11. 9/11. 9/11. 9/11.
They'll come running to you for protection,
cowering in fear of the Fall Guy/Boogey Man
created specifically to control and to oppress them
into accepting growing limits on their freedoms and their rights
which is passed off as in the national interest,
but has nothing at all to do with The People's agenda
and, in fact, is a laundry list of your own wishes.
And that's really all that there is to this "sting".
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
A simple, yet Machiavellian technique
that short circuits even thoughts of Revolution.
You actually set up those who'd oppose you
to see your legislation as the only possible solution
to the problem you created in the first place
and then get them to demand you introduce it.
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.
USA PATRIOT was rushed through seven weeks after 9/11,
ostensibly for National Security and the public's protection.
But with PATRIOT Act Two it's a concerted assault
on constitutional law and civil liberties,
which violates privacy rights and protection
from illegal searches and seizure of property.
Without any means of judicial review
it legalizes sweeping surveillance of US citizens,
and for the very first time in the history of America,
secret arrests and indeterminate detention.
It imposes more death penalty provisions
and gives government the right to strip us
of citizenship should we belong to a group
that the Decider may deem "domestic terroism".
The Military Commisions Act lets the President decide
who will be designated as an enemy combatant,
stripped of habeus corpus, subjected to torture
with no evidence but Dubya's word, now Law of the Land.
It gives GWB the power of life and death
over everyone on the face of the Earth, in fact,
they're subject to military tribunal, no lawyer, no appeal,
with the innocent prosecuted as if they were caught in the act.
With the John Warner Defense Authorization Act
Bush signed away a 200-year-old provision
with a change in the 1807 Insurrection Act
which in all those 200 years had prohibited
the use of United States military forces
for law enforcement purposes domestically
unless Congress sees fit to authorize it
in cases of national emergency.
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