Sadly, this is only the begining. People just aren’t watching news that isn’t critical of the administration, as demonstrated by recent surveys.

We’re in Iraq for no reason. Both our troops and our rights are under attack. One way Hitler kept support for his dictatorship was with such rhetoric about “Supporting the Troops”. Let’s look at a realistic slogan, “Support out Imperialism”. Maybe if you believe in the trickle down theory our country will benefit heaps; heh, doubt it.

The Espianage Act, the Military Commisions Act of 2006, the Patriot Act and the Liberty act. These will be used to protect us against terrorists, yes? Under this logic we are in fact the terrorists, as the laws have been used against toy store owners, people who have marijuana in their possesion and 14 year old girls.

Don’t know them, Google it. The Military Commision Act is said to only apply to aliens. Reading the actual bill renders this a falsehood.

The wolf is at the door.

We’ll all have a much more keen understanding of this in the future. Where do you stand?

I swear, if there isn’t a democrat in 2008, I’m moving to Canada…

They got some fine press censorship going on up there I’m told. I’d also be vary wary of a place that has the following phrase in its constitution: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God…”

That should be like Kryptonite to a moonbat I would think…

No right to trial by peers in Canada either:

“Any person charged with an offence has the right…in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal;”

Good luck.

The idea that you can declare your own citizens “illegal enemy combatants” is a disgrace. If you have been following this issue for a while you would know that there was no law detailing the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody due to the Supreme Court finding the way they were being treated before unconstitutional. To fill this void they decided to pass this law. What they don’t see is the fact that it doesn’t exactly fill all the gaps. Sure, now they get a “trial” of sort, but it’s just a MILITARY tribunal decided upon by the President/Secretary of Defense. If they decide that the decision or the people in the tribunal, are unsatisfactory, they use pick new people. That’s of course, if they ever decide to give you one, considering that they can just “disappear” you. You don’t get a trial, no “phone call,” your family doesn’t know where you are and you pretty much disappear from existence.

You say the “terrorists” are the ones we need to worry about? Who is to say who these terrorists are?

I think the most interesting point Olbermann makes is that of the lack of hindsight. Historically, when civil liberties has been sacrificed to neutralize a threat, the privileges granted the government has been grossly abused, often with no noticable effect on the issue it was supposed to handle.

ClaMs: “Where one side is blinded by its devotion of Allah, the other is too blinded but by the Stars and Stripes and the call of freedom.”

I disagree with that statement. The other side is not ‘blinded’ by Allah, they are blinded by their extemist leaders. Leaders like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are radical Muslims, and they interpret the Islamic religion differently than other Muslims (just like how there are different views on Christianity). Islam was originally a political religion; it united the Arab people. Today, still, it s also a political religion, but but the results of this political religion (and the governments that it controls) are because of the leaders, not because of the actual religion. Nowhere in Allah’s teaching does it specifically say to be a terrorist. Anything that happens in these theocratic governments is dependable on the interpretation from the leader. Osama Bin Laden, and other leaders, were bad leaders who used Islam to unite their people, and henceforth interpreted it their way, and later justifying what they did by calling this a jihad–or religious struugle.

whew. end that rant. now. the one other thing I have to say is that all people of the world are naturally hypocritical. The politicians of America were ‘preaching’ that the genocide happening during the holocaust was immoral and wrong, and that somewhat justified us getting into the war. AT THE SAME TIME, here on the homeland, Americans were discriminating blacks. If it was immoral to discriminate against Jews, isn’t it wrong to discriminate blacks? Or Japanese? Or blacks? or Hispanics? or Arabs? or Whites? Yes. I said whites. Has there been no discrimination against whites from blacks? Yes. there has.

Every race is fighting for the top. In this country, it has been whites on top most of the time (don’t take that racist, it’s just a fact that whites currently dominate the population and the majority of people who actually vote are white). In Middle Eastern countries: Arab. Is this fighting for the top a natural instinct, or is it brought on by the life long wars of our parents?

After all, a war is never won.