"> Glazed hams aren't the only items that America's local cops are
protecting
> from dubious threats. U.S. News has identified nearly a dozen cases in
> which
> city and county police, in the name of homeland security, have
surveilled
> or
> harassed animal-rights and antiwar protesters, union activists, and even
> library patrons surfing the Web.
It's fascism under the cover of the war on terrorism. It's a door for
those
who aren't happy with their own lives to invade someone else's to try go
gain some power and a hollow sense that their lives count for something.
--
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert
and
knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper me****ng of the huge
industrial
and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so
that security and liberty may prosper together.
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/do***ents/indust.html
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