From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 18:38:15 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Do Mike and the others really expect a knock on the door---or worse,
> the door being violently broken in---someday soon when "they" have
> taken over? Why is my name in credit card databases any kind of
> threat to me? My name is on public record in a number of places
> in California; the county land records, the state income tax board,
> the Department of Motor Vehicles. I don't feel threatened.
> Should I?
Just a few years ago, the wife of the President of the US, and her
liberal cronies in and out of congress, had publicly labeled me and
millions of other law abiding Americans as terrorists and threats to
national security. All of this went on while some on this list who have
been extremely vocal about the Patriot Act recently were either
strangely silent, or actively cheering Hillary on. Sucks when the shoe
is on the other foot, doesn't it? Do I think these people will learn
their lesson? Fat chance.
Given things like the "Know Your Customer Act", which mandates that
your banker act as an informant on your financial activities, I no
longer keep a bank account. I pay cash for everything, especially ammo,
subversive books, and other gear.
I don't like the Patriot Act. There, I said it. However, I don't like
foreigners infiltrating and attacking us even more. I don't like people
immigrating here under false pretenses as sleeper agents more than
that. The only concerns I have about the Patriot Act are that it will
survive the GOP hold on the White House and the DNC will use it to
launch an inquisition against law abiding American citizens like myself
who don't fit their politically correct view of the world. I have no
such fears about the Bush administration doing so.
> Some people who can't think clearly at all and have no sense of
> perspective already consider the U.S. the most repressive tyranny
> in history, the worst imperialist power, and the genocide champion
> of all time. So forgetting about them, who else thinks that there
> is a significant chance that the U.S. will become as repressive
> as China currently is, or Spain under Franco?
Depends on which party is in power. The GOP can never accomplish this,
specifically because their members are a minority in the US while
Democrats are a majority.
>
> (Remember the astonishment of the Soviet visitor to Spain in the
> 1960's when he saw a photocopier in plain sight inside a Madrid
> office building? Such, of course, was absolutely impossible in
> the U.S.S.R., so I'm not asking about the U.S. going Nazi or
> Stalinist---I'm just asking about something relatively mild.)
>
> Do you expect things to get worse and worse and worse? Do you
> foresee Ashcroft and those like him arresting people for political
> dissent, censoring radio and television?
I don't think so. We've already had treasonous behavior from the likes
of Sean Penn, who has repeated the acts of Hanoi Jane from a generation
ago. He is still walking around and casting for movies. Reps Bagdad
Bonoir and Jim McDermott, ditto, and they are still congressmen.
I think Bush and Ashcroft see it as a political advantage for these
boobs to act as extremely anti-war as possible. When we march into
Iraq, liberate the people, and expose all of Saddam's crimes and WMD's
to the world for scrutiny, those who opposed the war the most are going
to look extremely foolish come election time.
There is no repression like public humiliation.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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