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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carrol Cox wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<P><EM>> pk grunden wrote: </EM><BR><EM>> [clip] </EM><BR><EM>>
consider what parallels may exist between </EM><BR><EM>> Gilliam's nightmare
and our future as a country in a state of </EM><BR><EM>> permanent
war/surveillance, i.e. "the facts of the new world." I hear </EM><BR><EM>>
echoes from another room, too--the interrogation room. I hope I'm
</EM><BR><EM>> wrong, of course. But it all seems to be playing so
conveniently for </EM><BR><EM>> the Bushite agenda. What sort of resistance
is possible at this point? </EM><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV>The record on civil liberties of the Democrats is much worse than is the
<BR>Republican record. As I've written earlier on this and other lists, the
<BR>"McCarthy Period" is grossly misnamed. The chief red hunters were
<BR>Truman, Humphrey, & the ADA. HUAC flourished when the House was
<BR>overwhelmingly Democratic. It was Clinton that pushed through one of the
<BR>most repressive acts in U.S. history, The Anti-Terrorism and Effective
<BR>Death Penalty Act. (Humphrey was co-author of the most repressive
<BR>legislation of the Cold War period. And though 50 years ago I used to
<BR>laugh at my uncle's position that the Democrats were a war party (he was
<BR>after all just a silly farmer with only an 8th grade education) he was
<BR>essentially right. It really is not coincidental that almost every war
<BR>in the last century was waged by a Democratic Administration. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, pardon me! It appears I've made the mistake
of appearing to be partisan. Perhaps where I said "Bushite", I could have
substituted some broader term which would denote </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>"two-party collusion and the repressive nature of the
capitalist regime over bioproduction", or some such? Then might I
have been able to expect a response to the substance of my post?
Namely, considering the possibility that we we have more to fear from
our own government than from these supposedly "infinite" terrorists? And to my
question: What sort of resistance IS possible AT THIS POINT? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And by the way, why is it that the Democrats
happened to be holding power when world wars bitch-slapped the US out of its
isolationism? What conspiracy brought that about?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pkg</FONT></DIV>
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