King George has been systematically eroding away the freedoms granted to all Americans by the U.S. Constitution, all in the name of his illegal war in Iraq.
If anyone, at anytime, walks up to the President or the Vice President and makes a statement voicing their negative view of the war in Iraq, that person will be arrested by the Secret Service for assault.
If this statement shocks you, then you have not been paying close enough attention.
This very scenario played out in Beaver Creek, Colorado, when Steve Howards walked up to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was shaking the hands of supporters, and said “Mr. Vice President, I think your policy in Iraq is reprehensible.” Steve then walked away. The Secret Service then approached Mr. Howard, accused him of assaulting the Vice President and arrested him.
If you think this cannot happen in America, if you believe that an American citizen cannot voice his opinion to one of our top elected representatives of this ‘free’ nation, then you need to start paying closer attention to what King George is really up to.
There is a White House manual, written for the advance team of security people who show up at Presidential speech and rally sites ahead of the President and Vice President, that prescribes guidelines to ensure that protestors are out of earshot and to shout down any protestors that are deemed negative to the President and Vice President. This advance team recruits members from the Young Republican associations, from athletic teams, and from fraternities and sororities to stand in front of any protestors and shout them down with chants of “USA, USA, USA!”
Repressing anyone’s right to exercise their freedom of speech is un-American. Our own elected officials are advocating the suppression of freedom of speech.
Does this sound like the America our forefathers outlined for us? Does this sound like the America that thousands of soldiers over the last two centuries have died to protect? Is this the America that stands for freedom?
King George repeatedly reminds us, to the extent that it is nothing more than a brainwashing tactic, that the terrorists are coming to our shores. “Stop Al-Qaeda” has become his favorite war cry. I am all for stopping Al-Qaeda. He tells us how they can destroy this country. They cannot destroy this country. This country can only be destroyed from within. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are destroying this country by undermining the Constitution.
Bush has finally been given the right to spy on Americans, and without warrants, through the National Security Agency. Politicians who once fought against this very un-American attack on our basic right to privacy have now signed off on it. What happened? The first thing that goes through my mind when someone who so vehemently opposes an action and then is suddenly, mysteriously for it is that the person was ‘bought off’ or threatened. Can either of these things be ‘unheard of’? No. not any more.
The mainstream news media does not dig deeply enough to report the repression by our politicians or the un-American activities of our elected officials.
How many times has ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, MSNBC, or CNN reported that the Secret Service shouted down protestors of the Iraq war? I know, it isn’t sensational enough unless someone gets physical. And then the reporter would say that a protestor got ‘out-of-line’ and had to be removed and nothing would be said about the hired goon who strong-armed the protestor just for being there.
Repression is one of the tools of a dictatorship. The news media is facilitating this administration in behaving as a dictatorship by not reporting it. The American people are giving up their rights by not standing up saying something.
As a general rule, I don’t endorse authors books but if you would like to read more on the subject of how this administration is taking away our rights, then these two books should be read: “You Have No Rights” by Matthew Rothschild and ‘The Last Days of Democracy” by Elliot Cohen.
Go now and learn just how close to a Monarchy our 'Democratic Society' has gotten.
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