Patch

With the Senate passing the Patriot Act (renewing) this is something Patch thinks we all should keep in mind. The Nazis used terrorism or the threat of terrorism and secrecy as much as anything to gain control of the German government. Will the present American government go this far, I don’t know, but things are lining (already lined up?) up that will make it possible. To me reading the Patriot Act is kind of scary. The potential for abuse is huge, almost everything and anything can fall under “acts of terrorism” and any action of our government can be kept secret. The present Administration has already proven that they think they are above the rule of law. Either way; it appears to me, we are heading (already there? to one kind of Fascism or another. I think we need to look more at Argentina then Nazi Germany for the direction that we are heading,



Look at what we Americans have already accepted, preemptive war, secret prisons, torture, possible stolen elections, the Patriot Act and the Dept. of Homeland Security and government spying on U.S. citizens, and a President that keeps saying he needs more power.

WOW.

And you say it can’t happen here!!!!







If you read much and listen to people they all have an opinion on the Bill of Rights, why they were added to the Constitution and what they mean, but as you read and listen, most interpret the Bill of Rights to their point of view. Well here is mine. After living under the rule of a King most of their lives the people of America pretty much knew that most oppression and abuse of civil rights came from their own government, not foreign governments. Most of the 13 States of the U.S. had a bill of rights in their state constitutions and refused to ratify the new U.S. constitution until a Bill of Rights was written into it. And that’s the way I interpret the Bill of Rights, protection from my own government and that is why I was and am against the Patriot Act and it’s enforcement arm The Dept. of Homeland Security.

The Patriot Act absolutely shreds the Bill of Rights. Read it and see what is possible under this act, read carefully, because the bad stuff is buried deep, but were else would it be? The Dept. of Homeland Security is nothing more then another huge bureaucracy in which the government can secretly hide just what is doing.

Remember, Hitler and his henchmen did not operate in a vacuum; they had the support of people just like ME and YOU.

I’m always wondering, what’s worse, terrorism or our response to terrorism, are we fighting to bring Democracy to Iraq, while destroying it here in America?

Have you ever wondered how such a huge and complicated bill like the Patriot Act was written in less then 2 months and voted into law with such little debate?

Have you ever wondered why airport security is so strict and so little is done to secure US borders and seaports?

The Coast Guard is charged with seaport security, have you wondered why its budget is being cut by millions of $$$?



Have you ever wondered why there is no paper trail with the new computer voting machines? These machines operate with software, ever wonder who is writing this software?




I Do.
Patch








Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."— Martin Luther King Jr.



Also remember being paranoid does not mean they are not after you!















Also, when do you think Osama Bin Laden will be captured? I think late Sept. early Oct. 06, just before the mid-term elections. Bush’s falling poll numbers may up this time table, but I think this is the plan.