Some points, or thoughts, I've wanted to express here regarding recent threats to the Bill of Rights, and most particularly the First Amendment, largely concerning the "USA PATRIOT Act," most of them pursuant to a discussion on FADG about the account of the arrest of the Green Party woman (which has later become somewhat cloudier in its detail, I've had pointed out to me.)
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Quoting herself without fear of contradiction by the author, she continued...
...Obviously we were naively vulnerable to terrorist operations in this country. But I fear we are about to see abuses of new governmental power to suppress dissent (a thing establishments like to do). Except that what we will see will be the mere tip of the iceberg...
Unfortunately, I find it credible, though of course there will be another side presented, and it will suggest that she is a terrorist threat of some sort, probably as an "eco-terrorist," since she's Green Party.
But then I believe that establishments will do anything they can get away with to suppress dissent, and that includes labeling it terrorism. (There is actual terrorism being machinated at this moment in our country, and we have, as I have said, long been naive on this score. But power corrupts, and the U.S.A. Patriot Act gives much power that will, inevitably, be corrupted into dissent-suppression.)...
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