OT: Here we go again ...

[Terry Bassett]

dep wrote:

>quoth Terry Bassett:
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>|     It is more than chilling to watch Ascroft's sneering attitude as...
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> providing some examples of 
>ashcroft's religious fanaticism -- i keep hearing about it and keep 
>watching for it,  post-clinton, is isn't what is used to be...
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Ah, sir your rapier wit pierces me mightily.  But have you not heard 
Ashcroft speeches to church groups, professing to stop abortions on 
religious grounds, or perhaps that sounds reseaonable to you.  If the 
Government can rule over a womans belly then there really is no limit to 
their power.  It is only a tiny step to watch your bedroom or your 
living room or your outdoor activities.  All of which can be done under 
the current Patriot Act.  Ascroft's church speech was on C-span as I recall.
    The neo-America is the one I live in today.  It was not born because 
of 9/11 but of events a few days later, when the decisions were made to 
create the new entity of Homeland security.  It is the extremely 
powerful new form of counter-terrorism formed to be used here in 
America, in the name of National Security.  The CIA now has its own 
private Army.  The last time they had a private army, they ended up to 
their necks in the Golden Triangle drug trade and even weather 
modification experiments in Southeast Asia.  Things have already ran out 
of control is what I am saying.  Currently further additions to the 
Patriot Act are in the offing and will only make the neo-America harder 
to remove from power.
    And, yes I wrote a mis-formed sentence, if you read it as though I 
was here at the start of the Republic.  My relatives were though, maybe 
I just feel a certain ownership towards the America of my ancestors and 
would like to pass on the essence of that America to my children.

Terry Bassett