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    07 February

    What are we fighting for?

    The video I am referring to is called "Dissent", it is the second video listed on the site above. 
     
    For all those who say that free speech isn't dead yet, watch these videos.  I recommend starting with "Dissent" for a wake-up call about the police state we live in.  It's no wonder you don't ever see anything in the news about protests at presidential rallys.  The protesters are cordoned off a mile away from the building behind a fence in a "free speech area".  The whole country is a free speech area.  Old men and housewives are being arrested for exercising their right to protest, their right to petition their government, their right to speak their mind.  what kind of country suppresses dissent?  Is it a free democracy when the government is scared of its citizens?  Is it a free democracy when the president is surrounded by those who fawn over his every move and he shuts out all criticism for fear that it would injure his ego?  Is it a free democracy when dissenters are shot with wooden bullets, cordoned off in nets and fences like animals, arrested for committing no crime, shut up in cages in a chemical filled condemned building for days, and left to wonder whether they will ever get out?  Does a free democracy make its citizens feel like caged animals trapped behind a wall? 
     
    I thought we brought the wall down almost 20 years ago.  I thought we were fighting for the right of every man, woman, and child to tear down their own walls.  I never thought we would be fighting to bring down other people's walls while building one of our own.  The Berlin wall of today is a steel cage in an adandoned bus depot.  The iron curtain of today is orange netting with 300 peaceful protesters inside it while across town Our Leader uses the tragedy of the same city to further his political machine.  The Gestapo of today wears riot gear and fires "less than lethal" ammo at a picket line, killing innocent people.  The hammer and sickle have been replaced by the baton and the zip-tie cuffs.  Mussolini's eagle has supplanted Washington's eagle. 
     
    What frightens me is that some people don't notice.  What frightens me more is that some people don't care.  They beg the government to save them from some ambiguous threat.  At the same time, they beg the government to save them from the voices of dissent whose only purpose is to point out the cost of that salvation.  Is it worth it?  Do you feel safer?  Do you care?

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    Caveman is a little Lost!!!, Look no further then your president if & when another terrorist attack is released!! for he will be the one giving the order! as he did once before!
    9 Feb.
    Simonwrote:
    Wehlia, another superb post, well-backed and well-reasoned.  What I don't understand however is why you even certain members of the Troglodyte family comment on your posts.  He's obviously a mindless inbred republican fuck who couldn't care less about the erosion of his own rights or free speech for some percieved threat fed to him by the administration.
     
    Dude, Bin Laden is still at large... and he's not in Iraq, and he sure as hell isn't in the protests that legitimate, conerned Americans are attending.  Moron.
    9 Feb.
    Caveman, you can and will blame who you want, but the reality is that if and when another "911" happens in this country it will be because of our underfunded and overburdened Homeland Security. While Dear Leader is slashing social programs and cutting taxes for the rich our ports and borders go virtualy unguarded. A bill was recently proposed to lower the tax cut for people making over $1,000,000 dollars a year from $80,000 to $75,000 to fund port security. It was killed by the Republicans. They said it would hurt the economy. What will hurt the economy more, a five thousand dollar taxcut or another 911? Let me ask you Caveman, do you support protecting America, or throwing money away in Iraq and on tax cuts for the rich?
    8 Feb.
    R mellowrote:
    Caveman what the fuck are you talking about???  Seriously, if we'd had a beer and shot a game I can guaran-fuckin-tee you would not spout the shit that you do on these spaces.  It sounds so fucking stupid and foolish.  Damn man.  Where are these terrorists?  I mean c'mon, these guys I'm sure can worka cell phone, but that's about as technoligcally saavy they are.  Most are just like us, don't know shit till sumone tells us.  No shit.  The spyign program stopped a plot that would include bowtorches and the Brooklyn bridge?  Are you shitting me?  Have you ever been to the Brooklyn Bridge?  Believe me when I tell you that if some one ANYONE of the New Yorkers I know saw someone blowtorching a column of the wires of the bridge...they'd grab a bag and smoke. Then cap his ass for being as stupid to think that someone could actually cut through a wire THAT THICK, quickly. Don't you at least wonder WHy we haven't captured Osama Bin Laden.  In case you've forgotten, he was the supposed mastermind behind the very state of paranoia, and hatred we behold.
    "That's actually kinda funny."
    (Robert Walker 1975 in ref. to Saturday Night Live)
    8 Feb.
    Aaronwrote:
    Sorry bout three comments in a row, but I just saw the end of the video.  Looks like some law was passed to protect protestors. 
    8 Feb.
    Aaronwrote:
    Oh yeah and whooooo the freaaakkkkkk are these cops!?!?!??!  Is there not a sane brain among them!?!??!?!  Are they all swine!?!?!? 
    8 Feb.
    Aaronwrote:
    OMFG that dissent video pisses me off!!!  Do we need to pass a freakin amendment to protect the rights that protestors already should be granted!?!?!?!?!
    8 Feb.
    Dale Westwrote:
    Caveman.  You're an idiot.  There really isn't a nice way of saying it.  Perhaps it would be nicer to say your indoctrinated, but really, I just think your not a very bright person.
     
    Surely, an American is allowed to critically examine the actions of their president and his administration, without some fear-mongering wannabe patriot without a fucking clue blaming them for the next act of terrorism.
     
    Or maybe you just can't differentiate between negative and positive attention.  
    7 Feb.
    Cavemanwrote:
    hmmm..well..when you help the terrorist by putting Bush down..the terrorist laugh..and thank you from the bottom of their sharp knife......they love what dissent does swan..and wire tapping to ..they are like Thank God now ..we can get away ...sighhh..when the next 9-11 comes..I will blame people like you for helping them..nice going
    7 Feb.
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    Daveidusa wrote:
    Amazing!  How is it so many can't even see what's happening?  Are there that many sheep who would rather give up the country for an idiot like GWB?  It is unbelievable some of them think they're experiencing the second coming.  How many are going to be disappointed when they find out it really isn't anything but a closing of the borders, and a closing of their mouths, an end to democracy in this country.
     
    I do not idolize politicians, I am suspicious of them, and exercise my right to question them, at least until the above occurs.
     
    Dave
    7 Feb.
    No namewrote:
    You know I couldn't agree more.
     
    This wiretapping doesn't scare me, it saddens me.  And what saddens me and disappoints me even more is that the American people are too ignorant to understand that their rights are being taken away.  It breaks my heart to see a pro-war/pro-administration American waving his flag blindly and calling everyone who disagrees with him an "America-hater," because he's defending the image of a government that no longer represents him.  America is nothing without the rights it gaurantees its citizens, and it's extremely dangerous times when the citizens don't even understand this basic principle.
     
    -Jules
    7 Feb.
    Well Put!! The american people need to wake up and take a closer look at those running the country!
    7 Feb.

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