meet America.

America, Martin Niemöller.

Talk amongst yourselves...

mindless consumption -- the best way to keep from engaging with the real world while making yourself feel better for a few hollow minutes.

who ignore the water heating up until it is too late and they are boiled.

Things aren't likely to change until they run short of one or the other.

But of course, that's what the neocons are likely to do.  Raping the economy for fun and profit is going to eventually pull down the house of cards.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Yikes!
My hurt just from loking at the picture!

Naomi Wolf's recent book, "The End of America". She explains where we are headed in 10-easy steps. I just wonder whether they can seal-off the Canadian border when we finally try to escape.

and a polaroid camera is how it ends up...

... they've turned us all into Eisenhower/Goldwater conservatives.  I hate when that happens.

The point being, is there any lack of established law for dealing with any actual Timothy McVeigh types?

I don't think so!

That leaves no alternative but to defeat this legislation which is redundant at best and evil at worst.

And it's essential that its defeat in the Senate be as resounding as that "unanimous vote" that it received in the House.

It's time that these weasels get in tune with the ultimate special interest group - the people.

Any Senator of ANY party signing onto this scheme should be targeted for defeat.  And I mean, ANY party.

between Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh. I tell him one was a Muslim terrorist and the other was a home grown terrorist. No other differences.

I posted it. It just shows how far we have gone down this road. I was in college in the late 60s.

reminds that "we are the people our parents warned us about"

Take this newer one, put it on flyers, stickers, stencils;  leave it on utility poles, overpasses, bus seats, library books.  Just don't leave fingerprints, and don't get caught.

A poster with a background of images of people looking surprised; outside a Baptist church, a conservative-looking family by a barbecue, a couple of golfers, farther a kids fishing in a small boat.

Make a few people think that anyone can now be labeled a terrorist and be prevented from defending them self.

Geez, all they'd have to do is start reading through all the diaries here, hunt us all down, and they'd have enough people to fill up several secret prisons.

oh yikes, that's completely possible isn't it? And we can't edit our comments either...

at least we get a Caribbean vacation and a tan, assuming we are allowed outside.

that KBR (the Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root) got 100s of millions from Homeland Security to build right here in the old USA at "undisclosed locations"?

They are vaguely explaining this as a way to cope with a mass migration crisis or in national emergencies.

And remember the issue with the John Warner Defense Bill of 2007, signed in late 2006. Maybe not...I harped about it in countless comments but didn't hear others worry. Well except Senator Leahy

entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservationsabout certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law."

That was right after it was passed last year and I really expected it would be amended by the new Congress. I hoped a lot of things about this new congress that have come to naught.

As Leahy notes bush pretty much got Insurrection Act of 1807 and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 invalidated in one bill.

bush was using his power so well the congress gave him more...he really wanted it. The first thing he said about the possiblt bird flu was that congress had to change the law so he could use the military to enforce quarantines if needed. He said it a couple other timne to, like regarding Katrina. Congress had to empower himm. I knew they wouldn't, but they did.

allows the president to declare a "public emergency," station troops anywhere in the United States, and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

It's here

Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law‚" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order" in order to "suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

Title XIV of the new law is entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions,"

facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry from the Pentagon to local militarized police units.

and also grants the Pentagon $532.8 billion to include implementation of the new law which "facilitates militarized police round-ups of protesters, so-called illegal aliens, potential terrorists, and other undesirables for detention"

And so on. But...we can certainly trust bush. Right? Or the Congress would have revoked this. Right?

In any case no Cuba for us. We'll just go um...camping. Ya, that's it. Right in the USA.

George W. Bush should be hanged as a war criminal

Fuck you, 1955, if you can't take a serious statement.