La Jornada (Mexico): Bush plans for GLOBAL POLICE STATE

Bluebear

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:11 PM
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La Jornada (Mexico): Bush plans for GLOBAL POLICE STATE

"The White House is making a great effort to spread to the rest of the world an extension of police and military power."

Having been taken advantage of by Bush in the name of �national security,� a painful series of events has driven the judiciary and police, in view of the 9-11 attacks and the resulting worldwide indignation, to countenance a resurgence of the intelligence agencies in the United States. This has created a dictatorial climate of political harassment that recalls the McCarthyism that afflicted that nation after World War II.

Greenpeace and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), groups that champion civil rights, accuse FBI officials of using the powers of the Patriot Act "to erase the border that separates legitimate activities of civil disobedience from terrorist activities, in an attempt to repress political opposition" (La Jornada, 7/19/05). This is part of a systematic erosion of the Constitution and the establishment of a state of emergency, giving the police and military exceptional powers under that "Act", many clauses of which were set to expire this year. But Bush, taking advantage of the 7-7 attacks in Britain, has sought to make them "permanent."

http://www.watchingamerica.com/lajornada000011.html

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:14 PM
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1. Just a note

La Jornada (even if they are accurate) is a left of center paper... and when readying we always have to make sure about the aparent biases

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punpirate

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:51 PM
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6. Well, these days...

... with the so-called liberal newspaper "of record" afraid to challenge Bush through most of his first term, and pasting up lies on its front pages promoting an illegal war, along with the overall conservatism of the remainder of the print press in this country, perhaps the perceived need to identify "La Jornada" as left-of-center and to warn of its apparent bias is unwarranted. :)

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Frederik

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Sun Jul-24-05 07:40 PM
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7. "left of center"

God forbid we should read anything left of center, by Golly it could contain some truth in it!

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Jul-24-05 07:42 PM
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8. Did not say that

but we all need to be aware of what or where we are readying

We all are aware of where the Independent and the Guardian stand (slightly right of cetner and sligttly left of center) for teh UK Press, but this was more of a PSA of where this paper is

If this was Excelsion, I woudl have told you, right of center, in fact quite right of center

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Frederik

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Sun Jul-24-05 07:51 PM
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9. Point well taken

I think it was pretty obvious from their slant in which direction they were leaning though.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sun Jul-24-05 07:52 PM
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10. I know we are all practiced at this

but some folks are not... and I grew up down there, so I know the papers still

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Gman

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:15 PM
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2. 7/7 and now 7/21 and the renewal of the Patriot Act make it real hard

Edited on Sun Jul-24-05 06:15 PM by Gman

to just call MIHOP tinfoil.

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lady lib

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:42 PM
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4. I'm with you, Gman.

There is NO tinfoil to 9/11 MIHOP. None. Nada. Somehow the American public is going to have to wake up and wrap it's collective brain around that one. Good luck!

And while we don't have all the information on 7/7 yet, I wouldn't be surprised if that one was an inside job as well. NYT article today talks about the British police changing the timeline and changing their story about the type of explosives - first they were military grade and now they're not. And how convenient that 7/7 was used by the House to push through the Patriot Act renewal. How f***ing convenient for them.

:scared:

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wli

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:51 PM
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5. The clincher for me was the P2/Gladio crud in Italy

Basically, they've done it in Italy, so there's nothing stopping them from doing it at home.

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Frederik

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Sun Jul-24-05 06:18 PM
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3. Well duh

So what else is new. Listen to JP Morgan Chase whistleblower Indira Singh here, it's an absolute must-hear:
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=13&limit=N

What is being planned by the centres of power in the US is going to "make the third reich look like a tea party".

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