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Re: Should we be concerned?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:44:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Chris Phillips wrote:
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The consolidation of power that has occurred since 9/11 sends a chill down
my spine. Particularly because of the secrecy that protects the power
structure today, barking either “national security” or “traitor” at anyone
who would raise a voice of concern.
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Exactly. This “with us, or against us” stuff is crazy. Why can’t a person be
wholly patriotic and still want a moment to figure out what might be the truly
correct response to a crisis?
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I think this is exactly inside-out. It is the policy makers from the
Reagan/Bush Sr. administration(s) who are privy to Dubya’s puppet strings.
Shrub is either far too stupid to have gotten where he is today by himself,
or else he is the craftiest politician and best actor ever to snort coke.
The ones who really hold the power in America are the people who never leave
Washington. The presidency itself is too fleeting to be the actual seat of
power. Instead, the post has become a lightning rod for the real power
brokers who operate behind the scenes. Notice how smoothly Dick Cheney
maneuvered himself into the co-pilot’s seat?
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This is why I harp on people’s apparent partisan nonsense -- the parties are
meaningless. “None of the above” gets my vote. And maybe it’s not precisely
“Skull and Bones” but there is a power structure in D.C. that has nothing to do
with your votes. I have stated this again and again.
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Why do you suppose the FBI allowed 9/11 to happen? They had all the clues
sitting right there on their desks. Either they are completely inept or
else they decided that 3,000 civilian lives lost was a small price to pay to
advance their agenda of totalitarianism.
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This part might be a little hardcore for me -- I would like to think it cannot
be true that it was allowed to happen, but then again...
As my pal W.S. Burroughs was fond of lampooning: control is controlled by its
need to control. Seems circular in reasoning, but it has all of the terrifying
obviousness of addiction.
-- Hop-Frog
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I doubt very seriously that the Powers That Be really would have sat on their hands if they knew 3,000 people would die. My point is that they had all the clues and they should have had a better grip on what was about to happen than they did. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) "The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt. The consolidation of power that (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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