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Posted by Joaquim A. Peth, R.N. on December 13, 2007, 6:29 pm
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the Drum of Fear.
It happened slowly over decades, a steady
drum-beat of destruction of the American Way.
Solely for the benefit of those in power.
Not for the people.
It's supposed to be 'government *for* the people, by the people'.
We have slowly reached a state of McCarthyism against any elected
official who shows ANY "SIGNS OF SOFTNESS" in the War against Crime.
The constant state of War against imaginary enemies must end.
By imaginary, I mean crime was going down the whole War time.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
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I repeat: Civil war would have broken out.
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Dire suspension of Constitutional protections happens during War:
Abraham Lincoln ordered thousands of people detained without hearings,
and opposition newspapers shut down during the Civil War. During
World War II: the president orders Japanese and such to be held in
internment camps.
So why do we have all these loss of freedoms during peacetime?
Answer:
Because the Military has never stopped fighting World War II.
# "Spy Agencies Faulted for War Focus"
# By Tim Wiener, The New York Times, June 28, 1996
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# American intelligence agencies devote too much time and money to supporting
# the Military, and FAR too little to understanding the problems of peace, a
# new and authoritative critique concludes.
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# The report is one of FOUR MAJOR STUDIES to cite the "alarming imbalance"
# of spending more than $26 billion a year on machines, and less than $3
# billion on people, and those people spend their time analyzing the
# information the machines collect.
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# The Foreign Service has been crippled by budget cuts, sapped by the
# Militarization of intelligence. Diplomats, not spies, should be doing
# analysis of events in peaceful pl
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