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Context is Everything This has just appeared on the cover of http://CNN.com -- click quickly, the picture is priceless. A call by U.S. President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as being akin to introducing martial law.So here is my question. If I had said this was a plan for martial law, would you have thought I was being paranoid? Because that's what I've been thinking all day. It's nice that somebody in the mainstream media has noticed what should be obvious to everyone. Using the military to keep people in place if there's a flu outbreak? By this particular president? Considering how easy it is to make a flu outbreak? The problem is -- many things just as weird have happened and next to nobody has said boo. This certainly reveals something of what's on the Dub's mind. He has said that fascism is easier; that quote is in the record. But as James Madison and others have warned, such a way of governance is rarely just announced one day. It is created in slow degrees that nobody much objects to. But let's remember that this kind of crap is a smoke screen for the immense trouble that is brewing in the White House now. And let's remember that his making these kinds of announcements creates and reinforces the thought forms that make things real. As for the real agenda... Please meditate on the photo above (and have a look at the associated article from truthout.org from Editor & Publisher, link contained in the photo caption). Do these people look upset? This is potentially the very meeting in which they read the warning from the CIA that Bin Laden was about to strike. At least it is the very day of that warning. In the end, the Bush administration is going to come down to a Constitutional crisis. These scoundrels are not going to give up power; there will be a struggle. We need to expect them to use their power to keep their power, unless aware people intervene. We had better figure out a way to get Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress in 2006. But with rigged elections so easy to pull off -- Google "Wade O'Dell" -- well now. I have not heard too many objections to that. Maybe we can object now. How about it? Or Google Paul Krugman's "Hack the Vote" series for more information. This is also a good time to pray for Patrick Fitzgerald, the independent prosecutor who has the Valerie Plame spy-outing case on his desk. It's a good time to pray for people to figure out what Halliburton is. Or maybe we can recruit Monica Lewinsky... e | ||||||
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