Ya know it's scary what the Bush administration proposes to do. No, it's downright terrifying. They continue to expand their police powers. They propose to have the military walking through the streets. We're turning into a truly fascist nation. It's unbelievable. Why won't anyone stand up for the rights of human beings? Why won't we have some semblance of freedom in our country anymore? Is it that frightening to the powers that be? They treat us like so many cattle at the slaughterhouse. Perhaps we are. Religion doesn't mean anything to them. It's just a tool, like the television or any other media tool. Soon, the military will be walking through our streets, like the do in NOLA now, for our protection. They'll be able to demand our papers or... know...see your ID card and all the record will be in there. We'll have checkpoints and guard houses in our neighborhoods. Gated communities will be such because the military will close them off. I may be paranoid but it seems more and more, as Congress passes more and more legislation that we get nothing. The ones that might think something is going on are too scared of being branded unpatriotic or unAmerican.

If you don't believe what I'm saying, check out this Newsweek story. The funny thing is the Prescott Bush, George's grandfather, made most of his money during the 30s and WWII, working for a bank based out of Germany that funded the Nazis. It looks like the family is still fulfilling it's old agenda.

But Martin, the civil-liberties advocate, said the DIA recruitment provision must be looked at in the context of two other measures tucked into the Senate intelligence authorization bill. One of them specifically grants the DIA a blanket exemption from having to search any of its “operational files” when it receives a FOIA request. There is already such a FOIA exemption for CIA operational files. But Martin contended that some of the DIA’s activities that are currently not covert would be covered by the new exemption, thereby extending a greater cone of secrecy around the agency. (The senior DIA official said the agency was “wasting time, energy and manpower” conducting FOIA requests for agency files that, at the end of the day, don’t get released anyway because they involve classified information.)

Another little-noticed provision of the bill would create a four-year pilot program that would allow U.S. intelligence agencies to have access to data collected about U.S. residents by other government agencies and covered by the Privacy Act. The FBI can already obtain many such records—such as pilot licenses or Transportation Department licenses for driving hazardous-waste materials or other government permits and applications—for law-enforcement purposes. The new Senate intelligence provision would allow U.S. intelligence agencies, such as the CIA and the DIA, or "parent" agencies such as the Pentagon itself, to collect such information deemed by the agency director to be useful in intelligence gathering related to international terrorism or weapons of mass destruction. No court order would be required for the information to be shared.

It's unbelievable. It's tough to have reasoned debate when one sees the ability to debate slowly being stripped away. It's unbelievable. What good is freedom of speech when no one is allowed, by law to talk about or question the charges nor the authorities we're being charged with. People may think I'm crazy and that they won't do that. But THEY WILL! The U.S. government has done numerous things in the past. There were the Tuskegee syphilis experiment or perhaps the CIA doing LSD tests on people. The deal is most of the population believe what's going on will protect them. It won't.

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