Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TheDudeofLife, Dec 30, 2007.

  1. You hint at the complexities of Political solutions but I'll do you better.

    Here's John Edwards on the Patriot Act as a candidate in 2003 :

    Q: Do you support revision or repeal of the PATRIOT Act?

    EDWARDS: I support dramatic revision of the PATRIOT Act. The last thing we should be doing is turning over our privacy, our liberties, our freedom, our constitutional rights to John Ashcroft.

    Contrast this to Edward's comments on the Senate Floor in 2001:

    Mr. EDWARDS. "Mr. President, I rise in support of S. 1510, the Uniting and Strengthening America Act.
    In the aftermath of September 11, we face two difficult and delicate tasks: to strengthen our security in order to prevent future terrorist attacks, and at the same time, to safeguard the individual liberties that make America a beacon of freedom to all the world.
    I believe that when the President signs this anti-terrorism legislation into law, we will have achieved those two goals as best we now can."

    Here's another example: Nancy Pelosi gleefully called for Rumsfeld's resignation after the public disclosures of torture at Abu Ghraib.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/07/MNG1A6HEGQ1.DTL

    Yet Pelosi was one of four key lawmakers who'd been briefed by the CIA on waterboarding ect back in 2002.

    As reported by the Washington Post: "Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. "

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664.html

    And of course the neo-con leanings of name Senate Dem's like Hillary and Lieberman are legendary. How about this nugget on Diane Feinstein who was an architect of key spying provisions passed by the Senate:

    http://littlecountrylost.blogspot.com/2007/12/diane-feinstein-corrupt-war-profiteer.html


     
    #21     Jan 1, 2008
  2. I didn't ask you for an opinion about Pabst. I asked if as President in 1941 whether you'd pick isolationism in Europe or join forces with Stalin and Red Russia.

    Since I'm the revisionist and your the great truth please share your view with an explanation. Thank's in advance.



     
    #22     Jan 1, 2008
  3. The contraction of you are is you're, not your.

    Good trading to you. Try to avoid picking tops.
     
    #23     Jan 1, 2008
  4. Why? I'm essentially still short from 1578.
     
    #24     Jan 1, 2008