The changing face of terror..... article

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m21576&hd=0&size=1&l=e

September 11 has become the defining moment in human history; the seminal event that provides the meager justification for butchery and repression. The United States is now gripped by a form of low-grade state terror; the twin-axels of fear and deception keep the imperial bandwagon gliding along its path. America has been subsumed in a swamp of paranoia and lies; clearing the way for future hostilities and greater brutality.

Everything changed.

We know now that every breach of the law, every assault on tradition, every illegal war was perfectly timed to coincide with the "galvanizing moment"; a "Pearl Harbor-type event" that would rally the public behind their war president and begin the long, descent into iniquity.

The Patriot Act was prepared and ready for approval well before 9-11, just as the NSA program of blanket-spying on the American people began shortly after. Rumsfeld was already looking for excuses to attack Iraq just hours after the Towers fell, and in a matter of months, White House attorneys would be building a legal defense for the cruel and inhuman treatment of prisoners.

Was this merely coincidence or was the Bush administration already prepared for the transition to dictatorship?

[babylonsister]

1. The Patriot Act was prepared pre-9/11? That's the first

I've ever heard that! Jeeze...

[Bobbieo]

2. Changing Face Of Terror

I think the current methamphetamine abuse epidemic is a greater threat to this country than the threat of Arab terrorism or the bird flu.

[libodem]

3. Part of the plan

Just keep the projects full of drugs and it keeps the riots way down. Plus it keeps the police and the DEA employed, not to mention the jails and prisons full.

[Bobbieo]

4. This epidemic has gone way beyond the 'projects',

Meth is the most evil drug that has ever been created. It eats its users alive.