It's been a year since the people gave the Dems enough power to start reversing the hellish direction the law-twisting, law-breaking behavior of the Bush Junta has taken us. But the Dems aren't getting this nation back on the road of Civilization yet. Quite the contrary, Senate Bill 1959 and House Bill 1955 function to create a McCarthyism-to-the-tenth-power and conduct THOUGHT CRIME witch hunts, plunging us down the road of uncivilized behavior!
Why are so many Dems going along with this madness?! And WHAT can we possibly SAY to the Democratic leadership to make them change course and reinstitute civilized behavior in the United States???
What arguments/points can we use in our appeals to the Dems to rollback the Bush Junta's destruction of American Civilization? What can we possibly say to them to make them stop assisting King Bush and his court in the creation of this evergrowing tyranny???
The contemporary Bushworld 'witch' hunts can be called 'extremist' hunts. The scam is the same, but the term 'extremist' is more suited to the needs of The New World Order announced by Bush Sr. during his administration. When one was accused of being a 'witch' (either in the one world order of superstitious pagans or in a theocratic Catholic empire), one could never prove one was NOT a 'witch'; it was impossible to prove. So 'witch' was a perfect slur to conjur public fear and rip power and wealth from one's competititors. The same goes for the new "extremist" category devised by the Bush Junta. "Extremist" is the the kind of term that can mean anything the accuser wants it to mean. Are we going to allow this reshaped criminal tactic to be reborn and used in 21st Century America???
The Geneva Conventions decree that both psychological and physical torture are disallowed and illegal. Yet (in my estimation -- visceral at is) the Bush Junta uses BOTH forms of torture: Not only does the Bush Junta subject its prisoners/kidnap victims to all kinds of inescapable physical pain, the Bush Junta also subjects its victims to the PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE of open-ended detainment, the confusion and hopelessness of being held without knowledge or participation or understanding in a thoroughly insane and inhumane system of incarceration and "judgement" created by the Bush Junta. The DENIAL of habeus corpus itself should be considered the ultimate form of PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE! And being subject to "trial" (that is, additional mistreatment) in the kangaroo court system created by Bush's Military Commissions Act is also a form of psychological torture!
Previously, Bush's fear mongering about terror relied on the created public perception that our main risks were from foreign terrorists (rather than a thousand other present dangers, from disease and eco-degradation caused by pollution to faulty healthcare that excludes ever growing numbers of citizens!). So Bush's fear mongering of foreign terrorists was yesterday's scam. The new fear mongering scam that builds on the old is even more dastardly because its purpose is to compound the number of victims that can be taken here at home -- DOMESTICLY. Fear of your neighbor, fear of your co-worker, fear of other Americans -- that is at the core of the term "extremist". Bush et al want us to look at our fellow citizens and see "homegrown terrorists", when in reality the true DOMESTIC ENEMIES are those who would devise such terrorizing tactics as 'extremist' hunts!
I search for a reason so many Dems choose to create tyranny. Here's one possibility that has ocurred to me and my response to it: If the Dems believe strong controls are needed for the emergencies that may be ahead if global heating causes social breakdown, then they should be addressing THAT and addressing it with all the problem-solving potential of their positions. But for the Dems to CREATE TYRANNY hand-in-hand WITH the Bush Junta is to create social destabilization even BEFORE natural disaster is proven irreversible! Can we wake-up the Dems? Can we scream loud enough? Can anything we say convince them not to throw in their lot with the Corporate Powers now in the hope that if they increase corporate power now the corporations will protect them if emergencies strike. It would be a soul-less bargain, and even such Dem sell-outs will end up being victims of tyranny.
Rights + Law + Justice > Civilization
If the degradation of our Earth is to be our undoing, must Civilization be the first to die? Must the Dems aid Usurper Bush and Friends in murdering Civilization?
[Forgive the gloom, but I'm finished letting any Bush charlatans make me feel that because detainees are Gitmo-ized and gulag-ized instead of on the United States mainland that somehow the Bush torture crimes are less ACTUAL, less a personal threat, less a deathblow to Civilization.]