Nice job. Yeah, there is something definitely more than just the oil, and the power you have by controlling energy (Thanks, Enron...Calrat@screwedbyene.shaft); something more sinister, I'm afraid, but I can't quite get it together yet. Ultimate big bro stuff with Sauron's eye, thought police, nazi/commie totalitarianism, that sort of stuff. Some quotes from the local paper, re upcoming (actually, yesterday and tonight) talk about the civil rights stuff by an ACLU lawyer....
" 'The US is in danger of turning into a full fledged surveillance society.' That's part of the message Judith Volkart, board member and lawyer with the ACLU, will deliver Fri.
Under the guise of fighting terrorism, she says the Bush Admin is increasing efforts to spy on Americans,while systematically undermining freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
As an example Volkart points to the creation of the Total Information Awareness Program. If that name sounds like something out of "1984", she says, it is no wonder, because it 'may be the closest true Big Brother program that has ever been contemplated.
'It is going to be run by a branch of the Defense Dept, and it will be headed by John (the Eye, ..my word not hers)
Poindexter. He was the guy who testified B4 congress that it was his duty to withhold information from Congress. '
blah, blah, tired fingers not wanting to describe program, nor previous abuses, fast forward to)...
'AG John Ashcroft has sought and has been successful at having many of the protections of the Church Committee guidelines (Domestic spying) overturned. The fallout from such decisions is already happening, she adds.
'There as a fellow in the Bay Area who found the FBI on his doorstep after he criticized George Bush in a 24 hr fitness center in SF. I think he got in an argument in the gym, and it was overheard by someone-we don 't know who, he doesn't know who- but the FBI wound up on his doorstep asking him questions.
As another example, Volkart points to a 'college freshman who had the Secret Service visit her, because somebody turned her in for having a poster of Bush in her dorm room. The SS (WR abrv) came to her door.'
The poster, adds Volkart, featured a photo of Bush when he was gov of Texas, holding a noose to show his support of the death penalty.
'They saw the poster, and B4 leaving her room they wanted to know if she had any maps of Afganistan or pro-Taliban stuff'".
Keeping all this somewhat relevant to gold, it should be noted that gold, silver, and gemstones have always been used by refugees as a way to take their wealth to a new country. Howard Ruff used to talk about that when it looked like the inflation of the 80's was going to lead somewhere. Recommended first a position in the metals in case of financial collapse, etc, ad nauseum, but recommended you get diamonds for the portability factor. I never thought about Yankee Stadium being portable before I read that.
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