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Making Americans Unsafe
By Paul Craig Roberts
17/07/08 "ICH" -- - The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes
have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization
that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect,
there are now one million names on the “terrorist” watch list.
One of them is that of former Assistant US Attorney General Jim
Robinson, whose top security clearances are current. Every time
Mr.Robinson flies away on business, he is delayed by a totally
incompetent “terrorist” protection racket that cannot tell a person
named Jim Robinson, who served in the highest echelons of the US
government, from a Muslim terrorist.
What confidence can we have in a regime that is incapable of
differentiating an Assistant US Attorney General from a terrorist?
Mr. Robinson said: “If I were convinced that America is a safer place
because I get hassled at the air****t, I might put up with it, but I
doubt it. I expect my story is similar to hundreds of thousands of
people who are on this list and find themselves inconvenienced.”
“Hundreds of thousands of people” on a watch list that they have no
business being on?
Yes. “Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other ‘suspicious
characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become
trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of
escape,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Wa****ngton
Legislative Office.
And this is America, not Nazi Germany?
How can Air****t “Security” possibly protect anyone when the idiots
cannot differentiate a high level American government official from a
terrorist?
Do you really believe there are one million terrorists and nothing has
blown up in the US since September 11, 2001 (assuming you believe the
government’s account of that episode)?
How can there possibly be 1,000,000 terrorists and America still be in
one piece? If there were 1,000,000 terrorists, America would be in
ruins. According to the Bush Regime’s line, it only took a handful of
terrorists to destroy America’s tallest skyscrapers and a section of the
Pentagon and to send the President of the United States scurrying to a
hiding place.
One million terrorists could bring America to its knees, and they
wouldn’t need to fly on airplanes to accomplish this.
What we are witnessing with the one million person “watch list” is
bureaucracy run amok. One Million Terrorists makes the danger seem
overwhelming. Such overwhelming danger rationalizes the aggressive
behavior of the bullies and thugs attracted by the power of confiscating
your toothpaste and bottled water and riffling your belongings in your
luggage.
Show your ID.
Take off your shoes.
Take off your belt.
Take off your jacket.
Empty your pockets.
Don’t complain about being searched without a warrant or you will miss
your flight. You might be arrested, handcuffed, kicked and otherwise
abused--the fate of many American citizens.
The morons who comprise the US government call the “watch list” one of
the government’s “most effective tools in the fight against terrorism.”
What an effective tool it is! It cannot tell the difference between Jim
Robinson and a Muslim terrorist.
The “watch list” has not apprehended a single terrorist, but thousands
of American citizens have been inconvenienced and arrested.
The ACLU says that “putting a million names on a watch list is a
guarantee that the list will do more harm than good by interfering with
the travel of innocent people and wasting huge amounts of our limited
security resources on bureaucratic wheel-spinning.”
It is worse than that. What the “watch list” or “no-fly list” is doing
is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon
their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and
bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching
and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest
them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to
arbitrary power. In the false name of “safety from terrorists,”
Americans are being made the least safe people on earth.
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
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Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"
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