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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 11/18/2006 : 16:17:05
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YO! Just THIS in...from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/18/gonzales.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that presents a "grave threat" to U.S. security.
Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a federal judge's ruling last August that the program was unconstitutional. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called
the decision "an indefensible act of judicial overreaching."
(Sort of like the corporate overreaching of Halliburton?)
Gonzales, in remarks prepared for delivery at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said that some see the program as on the verge of stifling freedom rather that protecting the country.
(THAT you'd be right about, Mr. Attorney General.)
"But this view is shortsighted," he said. "Its definition of freedom -- one utterly divorced from civic responsibility -- is superficial and is itself a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American people."
(Especially when the Wild Bush Bunch is trying to get the political goods on its opponents, not just terrorists and wannabe-terrorists.)
OY sez:
Here's another thought that ought to be provided the Attorney General, as well as the Vice President: If you, sirs and the rest of the Bush adminstration work really hard on your credibility, I bet you'll find most citizens ready to supply you with gobs of what you call, civic responsibility. General Gonzales, your boss' civic responsibility to be a credible public servant is what's in question here, not mine or most other U.S. citizens.
OY!
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Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 11/18/2006 16:19:04
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Montgomery
New Member
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 17:40:56 [Permalink]
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| Amazing. And the ones who believe this also believe in a divine being which both says love your neighbor and then allows them to go out and kill them. |
Thomas Jefferson:
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 21:30:10 [Permalink]
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This is exactly the same kind of thing as the Red Scare tactics of Joe McCarthy in the 1950's. Blame advocates of Liberty for endangering Freedom.
One major difference, though. Bush, Gonzales, and crew don't have a message that resonates any longer. It's like they are at the point where Edward R. Morrow pointed out how pathetically empty was Joe's fearmongering.
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