"Black Elk" <windriver2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "> 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
>
>
I would rather have fascism than the likes of you and your ilk.
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