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- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -9/+229Sounds like something right out of Orwell's 1984!!!
Bush & the NeoCons are extremely dangerous psychopaths!!! - DD2CC2U, on 08/30/2008, -12/+155Bush = McCain
- Cordier, on 08/30/2008, -7/+112Perhaps if we are in a perpetual state of war Bush could cancel the upcoming elections. Would we do anything to challenge him if that happened? I'm not so sure...
- kemp34, on 08/31/2008, -5/+85***** you Bush.
- Thesp0rk, on 08/30/2008, -9/+88Immuntiy for telecoms: check
Warentless Wiretapping: check
Never having to give up your wartime powers: Priceless - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -3/+61Wake up America and do something about it. This is the official petition for impeachment hearings which will document any implicating crime committed by the Bush administration.
http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/ - shadowblade989, on 08/30/2008, -9/+62Next, lets reorganize the Republic into the first galactic empire.
- Sil369, on 08/31/2008, -8/+60***** you Bush.
- daflo, on 08/31/2008, -5/+53War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength - jlhoben, on 08/31/2008, -1/+48Big brother loves you.
- AndrewDB, on 08/31/2008, -1/+44With all of these security measures ... why do I feel less secure about my future?
- duckley, on 08/31/2008, -3/+43IMPEACH.
PROSECUTE.
CONVICT.
IMPRISON. - aussiejan, on 08/31/2008, -1/+36If that happened I'd like to think that people would take to the streets by the millions but I suspect that they would sit on their asses and complain.
- MichaelKthx, on 08/31/2008, -7/+35What fascist "socialist" county is this in?
China? USSR? oh USA...
I was confused for a second there.
2nd Amendment.
Just Saying.
There would be another revolution if this happens.
Like I said just saying.
(the following text is so i dont get in trouble)
Heil Bush our fuhrer. he needs to do this to protect the common good. - borez, on 08/31/2008, -3/+31I am so sick of this *****
- algaeturd, on 08/31/2008, -4/+28This country we're living in isn't America anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. It doesn't belong to us...it belongs to a handful of uber rich people who decide everything for you.
- Jaime2000, on 08/31/2008, -1/+24"When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded."
~1984 - KataLieb, on 08/31/2008, -1/+23"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
George Orwell's 1984 - KataLieb, on 08/31/2008, -1/+22Was there a revolution in Germany?
No.
There will be no freedom ever again in USA or the world, until the people revoke the license to rule over us. Until we become truly sovereign.
Power wants nothing but to rule over us all, absolute.
""The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
George Orwell's 1984" - GorfTron, on 08/31/2008, -2/+21Bush does things like this quietly. His public persona is that of a strait shooter cowboy patriot. In action, he is a political scumbag.
- Murdats, on 08/31/2008, -1/+20as long as they feed the people some talking points then you can bet people will defend them to the death and say how taking away elections is the best thing ever.
- ryan69969, on 08/31/2008, -2/+19Congress needs to find some backbone. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war, and short of a constitutional amendment otherwise, they can't simply delegate that power to the executive branch. However, by passing the resolutions they have, making it unclear if they're approving an actual war, police action, or what have you, and without any specific goal or termination date...Congress is diluting it's power to declare war, thus giving the president far too much latitude to throw our troops around.
- noupsell, on 08/31/2008, -1/+18They either don't have a f'ing clue the disastrous harm they are doing to this country or they simply don't give a ***** -- Oranges and Lemons
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -1/+17Read the history of Mussolini on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini
This is exactly what happened in pre-WW II Italy. Bush is a Neo-Fascist. Only Congress can stop him, but Congress has given up all its authority. The MSM could also put a halt to this, but they have become a puppet of the ruling Oligarchy. - soulkitchen, on 08/31/2008, -1/+16"So this is how liberty dies, to the sound of thunderous applause . . ."
- OneLess, on 08/31/2008, -0/+15Bush at least pretended to have a halfway-decent foreign and domestic policy approach in 2000, McCain puts forth no such illusion.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -1/+16Bush is following in the footsteps of Mussolini. He wants to become "Il Duce" of the United States. He is a Neo-Fascist. His Father was a Fascist and so was his Grandfather. His ultimate goal is to destroy the Constitution and to form a Dictatorship. His plan is called the Unitary Executive.
As you say he is extremely dangerous! - campbeln, on 08/31/2008, -2/+17But... but... they'd HAVE to close the polls as the intelligence they got said that the ter'ists would target polling stations! They'll just be doing their duty, which is to protect the American people! They hate us for our freedoms, don't you know (it has noting to do with us forcing western friendly governments on them)!
/sarcasm (just in case you're a republican)
In a sick and twisted sort of way, I hope McCain takes the election. 4 more Bush years, and with them wars with Iran/the wider middle east and a hot cold war with Russia just might knock some sense into the American people. Then again maybe not... with Emmanuel Goldstine... er... Osama bin Laden and the Russian Bear to fear again! But the 20 trillion in debt (Fannie, Freddy and Wall St. bailouts, not to mention Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan wars plus Russia, hell 20's too low) just might crush US (pun intended)...
I'm just glad I'm a dual citizen...
Cn - junkwheel, on 08/31/2008, -0/+15PROFIT!!!!!!
- iChaz, on 08/31/2008, -4/+19mccain is coming across as even worse than bush was pre-election. we're in for a rough ride if obama doesn't win...
- bluehexagonsun, on 08/31/2008, -4/+19Just like his ideological predecessors, Hitler and Stalin.
- ninewhereman, on 08/31/2008, -1/+16I love this country, but I weep for what this administration is doing to it. I hope people wake up and we can make this a great nation again.
- Jhiaxuz, on 08/31/2008, -1/+12Since we are now witnessing the abusive powers of authority in departments as "low" as the police, I would think that if these measures were put in place that the people who would protest would simply disappear.
- FlaNative, on 08/31/2008, -0/+10Great, you just got Digg's server logs confiscated.
But, you wanted that, didn't you?
Karl Rove, is that you? - naz2292, on 08/31/2008, -0/+10This ***** is just like the Roman Empire in its later years.
The Caesar keeps the people happy with bread and entertainment
And the people don't give a ***** about their ***** empire crumbling under their feet. - kevkrj, on 08/31/2008, -1/+11This is not a war on "terrorism" a war on an idea is even more impossible to win than the failed war on drugs. This is a war waged for our freedoms. Fear is the weapon that is being used to scare the masses into freely giving away the liberties our forefathers died to establish. The new world order is figuratively and literally banking on driving us into a state of fear to control the public. Congress is only a tool of the elite, either paid and/or deceived into this idea of constant war.
Take back our civil liberties.
Wake up to the implications of such wars on ideas. - Nice2BHere, on 08/31/2008, -2/+11Bush= Emperor Palpatine ... we gave this association on Digg a few years ago when the presidential powers were first increased. Star Wars had it right...loss of liberty is accompanied by thunderous applause. Spread the word that Star Wars Episode III should be watched by everyone, and then they will know that Emperor Bush (I mean Palpatine) was really a Sith Lord.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+11Congress needs to put an end to this fallacy that we are at War. Only Congress can declare War. The founders never intended for the War Powers in the Constitution to be used to wage an ideological campaign. The Bush Administration's use of War Powers has been to move the country towards Fascism.
If you read the history of Mussolini's rise to power, you can see parallels to Bush. Bush is eroding the Constitution and has openly declared that he believes in a Unitary Executive. This is "Il Duce" by another name.
Fight Fascism! - nijiro, on 08/31/2008, -1/+10Raise your hand if you saw this coming since 2000.
- atruevoice, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8Yes, impeach Bush!
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8@RobotBuddha
Tell that to Ghandi and MLK. - rotundo, on 08/31/2008, -1/+9@apostiedeets - Just because all the candidates are flawed does not mean they're all equally as bad. That's a lazy and naive way of looking at things. There is a significant difference between the candidates and it's worth figuring out which is going to do better in your opinion.
- BforBusiness, on 08/31/2008, -1/+9Good evening, America. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any man. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, George Bush. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Congress, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
- arcangelgabriel, on 08/31/2008, -6/+14If a President can do it, then a President can un do it.
Here's the deal team, Don't sit on your Digg asses and quip, post, shake a fist at the sky...
Got off your backside and keep this issue alive and in the public eye. Reach enough people and it WILL go away, but not if you just post pithy sayings for diggs then move on to the next LOL cat or Anti-Palin post.
Do SOMETHING.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke - sapphire9488, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7I just finished reading 1984 yesterday actually, and that's the first thing I thought of when I read the title. One passage from it stood out the most:
"In accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter
if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The
war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous."
It's as if Bush & company have been using it as a strategy book! Absolutely horrifying... - Mekhami, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7fascist socialist? wtf is that? i hate people who can't use the right damn terminology.
- borez, on 08/31/2008, -1/+8alquada... is that some sort of hydro-Muslim sports drink
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7I have to agree that it might require a McCain Presidency that took the government to the verge of Fascism to get the American People to take action. Obama would just leave the pot simmering, and the next Republican President could pick up where Bush left off.
The problem is that a McCain Presidency could take us to the point of no return down the road towards Fascism. It's not a two-way street you know. And we are well on our way to becoming a Police State with the tacit approval of Congress and the MSM. - R1ng00, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7It brings to mind Mussolini -- he just waited for parliament to figure out they were no longer needed and then took over. Without checks and bounds, accountability we have a dictator not a democracy.
Congress is basically in the same state.. he's just waiting for them to figure it out.
- Lleu, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7If he cancels the elections or enacts Marshall Law I think that there will be a massive revolt. Who whats to sign up to car pool?
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