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Bush tells former CIA employees they're no longer permitted

to criticize his administration

 

 

 

 

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

 

 

Bush tells former CIA employees they're no longer permitted to

criticize his administration

by John in DC - 4/27/2006 02:30:00 PM

 

 

Jesus Christ. Where are we, the Soviet Union? A week after the Chinese

communist dictator is welcomed to the White House we're told that

former government officials are no longer allowed to criticize the

government?

 

In America?

 

Is this what 51% of the American people voted for? Outlawing all

dissent? Not to mention, if there's such a crisis of former

intelligence experts wanting to criticize George Bush then maybe that

ought to tell us something - about George Bush.

 

Seriously, anyone who is Republican out there and voted for this man,

how can you continue to support these bizarre un-American policies?

Does America stand for anything anymore?

 

I studied the Soviet Union in grad school, it was one of my main areas

of expertise. I'm a hawk on defense. I hated the Soviets and there was

little Ronald Reagan could do wrong vis-a-vis the evil empire, in my

eye. And I'm telling you, what is happening in our country today is

right out of the Soviet playbook. (It's also right out of the Nazi

playbook.) You slowly criminalize dissent so that the public accepts

infringements on civil liberties that it would never accept in one

fell swoop (and, well, in the Soviet Union there was no slowly to it

at all - it was pretty instantaneous).

 

Has America become the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany? No. Have we

started down the path to a more totalitarian government that no longer

respects, that no longer fears, its citizenry? Absolutely. Do we

tolerate today in America presidential policies that would have been

unconscionable under any circumstance just ten years ago. Sadly, yes.

 

And to hell with this war on terror crap.

 

America wasn't created in order to throw away everything it stands for

in order to survive. That was not the intent of our founding fathers,

that we protect and defend our God-given - remember, God-given they

told us - rights only when it was convenient. If they're God-given

rights, then how can man suspend them, even for a war on terror?

 

The Republican party no longer represents freedom or democracy or

America. They have become the worst historical caricature of what

liberals were always supposd to be (but actually weren't).

Un-American, loose-spending, wimps who are ultimately terribly

dangerous to our freedom in troubled times.

 

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