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coup d'etat and "emergency powers" (none / 0)

I think we should consider that we are fooling ourselves. Bush has already effected a coup d'etats and taken on absolute power in this "state of emergency." The MSM is happy to cooperate and the judicial and legislative branches of government are too week or too complicit to do anything. Bush said himself that he will do want he wants to do in the name of the war on terror. And one reporter astutely pointed out that the "war on terror" might go on for decades. We are in 1984 and this has become a police state. Only a general uprising in this country can make a difference. Elections are manipulated and may even be postponed indefinitely in the future. Do you really think he is leaving in '08? Democracy is dead and the constitution is dead.
Bill R.
by cmpnwtr on Tue Dec 20, 2005 at 04:20:19 PM EST

Uh, no. (none / 0)

We are not in 1984, and this is not a police state.  You have not been tracked down and "disappeared" for stating this opinion.  People are not routinely being locked up in gulags and tortured.  You are not being watched in your home.  Secret police do not routinely monitor internal domestic communications.  There is no indication whatsoever that Bush plans to cancel the 2008 elections.  This kind of hyperbole is not helpful to the progressive cause.
by arenwin on Tue Dec 20, 2005 at 06:58:32 PM EST
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