As I mentioned before, the clip of Obama''s actual words were sixteen seconds. I''m going to refrain from judging them until I can find some more credible information about them. The article that Karl linked was a great start and very helpful. However, if I were to quote certain sentences from it, I wouldn''t even be able to make this post. So let''s just say it''s apparent that it wasn''t a comprehensive examination. So far, the best I can surmise is that this somehow relates to how America can meet our ever-increasing needs for national security. But I''ll keep looking.
Nope. Not until our guys are back home and this war is wound down.
Glenn Greenwald, on the other hand, believes that “[t]here’s no need to start manufacturing all sorts of scare scenarios about Bush canceling elections or the imminent declaration of martial law or anything of that sort” since a single brigade is clearly insufficient to accomplish any of that, and the deployments probably wouldn’t be announced as they have been if there were indeed sinister plans. Greenwald is probably right here, as he is when he cautions: “[T]he deployment is a very dangerous precedent, quite possibly illegal, and a radical abandonment of an important democratic safeguard. As always with first steps of this sort, the danger lies in how the power can be abused in the future.” But one cannot be sure. (emphasis mine)
The one indisputable fact about the Bush administration is that its contempt for the Constitution is all but impossible to overestimate. A government that would deliberately lie to lead a nation into war, set up secret torture prisons, illegally wiretap American citizens, and then threaten the journalists who reveal these facts with jail, is certainly capable of using a military brigade at home, should it decide that its own definition of a threat has been met. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, but how can citizens voluntarily pay this price when the media upon whom they depend has proven AWOL on its most sacred constitutional charge?
Well then, Bush and Obama agree on something!!!
Whether Republican proposed or Democrat proposed, such a force would be frightening. Just because I''m more conservative than the majority here does not mean I would be amenable to any such gross overreaching of government. Just by stint of not being Democrat does not mean I agree with wiretapping, either. Or any other erosion of civil liberties.
The intent of my comment wasn''t to stereotype at all. The story is what it is, and it''s the Republican party. I just pointed that out, nothing wrong with that. If we''re going to be fearful over something we don''t yet understand that the president elect might or might not be doing, because of some random comment he made that we can''t find anymore on, I figured we could at least point out what we can be fearful of that President Bush has done.
I agree with you Deco. Boy, I''m just agreeing all over the place today. I believed that the speculation was probably, as it has been so far, trumped up smears. But since I got asked directly by my friend to help calm her mom down about the militia, I did want to see what I could find out about it. And I guess since I am constantly hearing the argument that I just ignore everything but my liberal elite media sources, I was trying to extend the courtesy of examing the evidence. Which I am thus far not persuaded by.Date: 11/7/2008 4:15:16 PM
Author: decodelighted
Wellllll... this ''secret radical militia'' of college-aged kids sounds more like those DANGEROUS volunteer firemen -or- (gasp!) The Peace Corps. I''d suggest the prudent thing to do would be to calm down & listen to plans as they are proposed & explained. There''s plenty of urgent house-on-fire matters to deal with. Reading nefarious intent into vague statements (though a popular past time lately) is just spinning yourself up for naught.
Would there be all this Voodoo speculation & intrigue & boot-quaking ''terror'' if Hilary had won?
Have they actually read "The Book of Revelations"??? Do they know it''s the Book of Revelation...without an S? I notice that the folks that screw up what is written in it the most are those that don''t even know the freaking proper title!!!!
Hey Part Gypsy, I have a thread about that. If you would like to help the older white men that you adore better understand Obama, you can try sending them the Snopes link: https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/anyone-else-gotten-the-obama-is-the-anti-christ-email.97966/
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