Saturday, June 8, 2002

Dubya calls for US Gestapo US President George Dubya Bush took to the airwaves last night in an appeal for the establishment of a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, to keep us all safe and snug in our beds. "Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us," the President warned, and added that "this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently." Acting differently means creating a vast federal bureaucratic complex to gather and sift data relevant to US persons collected by myriad federal and state government and law enforcement offices, and commercial bodies such as banks, insurers and direct marketing firms. [Register] It's a good article that points out the problems and issues with what's going on here. GW is putting the Democrats in a position of no refuse...not with the fall elections dead ahead. The only question is, have we really thought through the potential impact of this change? Not likely, but that's politics as usual...mj 7:30:07 AM

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