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we could go back in time and question a past generation of Americans? What would they say about current events? Let me take you through the looking glass.
On October 24th, 2001 the 107th Congress called it the Patriot Act with the following definition:
To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
Sec. 202. Authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to computer fraud and abuse offenses.
Sec. 204. Clarification of intelligence exceptions from limitations on interception and disclosure of wire, oral, and electronic communications.
Sec. 209. Seizure of voice-mail messages pursuant to warrants.
Sec. 213. Authority for delaying notice of the execution of a warrant.
What Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
What would the voices of the past say about a mother's vigil on a dusty, lonely Texas road?
"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. Senator Robert M. La Follette
We've seen the profits companies have raked in from Bushes illegal business venture in Iraq but what would military leaders from the past say?
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious."General Smedley Butler
What would writer Mary Roberts Rinehart say to George Bush?
"I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die."
Is it possible Georg Washington would stand side by side with those voices on a road in Crawford Texas denouncing an illegal war while beer swilling patriots try and shout them down? Would Teddy Roosevelt stand with Cindy also?
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."George Washington
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..."Teddy Roosevelt
This all came about with a president and his media selling America fear and terror. Turn on any channel, it's not 24 hour news, it's 24 hour fear and terror. Douglas MacArthur predicted todays media coverage,
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."
Will any of this matter? Can we change the hearts and minds of a few? Probably not. What we do know with all of our hearts is Cindy Sheehan is right to stand on that dusty road, she is right to have her voice heard above the hysteria and fear the media has spread, and she is right to ask why her son died. She has earned that right as an American and a patriot who gave her first born to America in it's quest to make millions for Halliburton in an illegal war sold to us by the media under the guise of terror and fear.
America, uncover yourself from the fear of terror, open your eyes and see the truth, the truth that fear sells.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...Thomas Paine
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
~Thomas Jefferson
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