Treason? I think we’ll all be hearing the word applied to more revelations of government misdeeds in the build-up to the sham elections in November. Of course more terrorist plots and rumors of plots will abound and there will be more sham hysteria about pornography and drugs and people who speak Spanish and perhaps even a staged burning of a flag or two. I predict that it will be effective – it always has been and Americans are all too eager to go out in the streets with pitchforks and lanterns to fight whatever monsters the Government invents while the men in black plunder us in secret.
If the New York Times has committed treason, than so has every newspaper because if George W. Bush can retroactively classify things which have long and publicly been announced, then we are all traitors whenever it suits him to make us traitors.
Indeed an executive order calling for greater cooperation with foreign entities “to monitor money that might be headed to terrorist groups” was posted on the White House website only days after the September 2001 attacks and numerous mentions have been made of such monitoring whilst bragging about how successful George W. Bush has been in preventing terrorist attacks.
But George can get away with such slithery deeds because we the people are far too concerned with the pantheon of threats provided to distract us, with American Idol and the Superbowl; with witch hunts and wars on Christmas. We don’t remember what George did or said yesterday; the president says jump and we jump. He says hate and we hate. He does what he wants in defiance of law and we love him for protecting us.
To paraphrase Lincoln, we are in no danger of any foreign entity conquering us; we can only be conquered from within. We are in far more danger from those who claim to protect us while breaking, twisting, misusing and bypassing the law for purposes of power and the accumulation of wealth. George W. Bush and his band of villains constitute the greatest danger this country has faced in its 230 years of existence and if this be treason, hang me.
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After I hang you can I have your stuff?
Aren't we supposed to be scared about the bird flu pandemic that is coming and for which we are woefully unprepared?
Yes. Want to join me at Costco to stock up for the coming plague?
Absolutely.
Because we will need stockpiles to protect against terrorists, bird flu, illegal immigrants, liberals who hate America, flag burners, activist judges, and Hugo Chavez. Did I forget anything else I am supposed to fear?
Fear itself? Maybe it's better to forget the details and just take a couple of Xanax. . .
Of course, because if we don't consume pharmaceuticals, the terrorists win.
I think they won a long time ago.
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