Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 The 9th Annual Muzzle Awards " Nearly five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, our political culture has been warped beyond recognition. Fear and repression are the two ingredients that fuel the Bush White House, and anyone who dares say otherwise is branded as unpatriotic at best, a traitor at worst. " The Ninth Annual Muzzle Awards, presented every Fourth of July since 1998, single out enemies of free speech and civil liberties in New England. There's plenty this year to be alarmed about: Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's presidential pandering to anti-Muslim sentiment; a decision by Fourth of July parade organizers in Maine to ban an anti-war group; Rhode Island middle-school officials' calling in the Secret Service to interrogate a seventh-grader who'd written an imaginatively violent essay. " But all of this pales when compared with the regime of shadows and secrecy presided over by George W. Bush. From the National Security Agency's no-warrant wiretapping program to CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, from prisoner abuse at Guantánamo to the endless war in Iraq, Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney have transformed our country into something that would have been unrecognizable before they took office. " Consider just a few under-publicized examples of Bush's contempt for freedom of expression and civil liberties: " Full awards at: http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid16290.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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