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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (16842)	11/19/2003 10:00:25 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) of 793670

re: strange bedfellows -- agreed. But it's not the protesters that are the concern, it's those who have power and influence. Hitchens is a good case, a rabid Bush-promoter and newly-awakened uber-neocon, who's come from socialist "convictions" to uber-nationalism "convictions, which are looking more and more like they've combined into the familiar "National Socialist" approach we saw in the last century. He apparently said the London protesters were "supporting the terrorists". It's easy to understand how dangerous that bit of rhetorical connection is, when you consider what laws are now in place to deal with anyone declared to be in that category. I.e., summary arrest, no lawyer, secret trial and unlimited detention or even execution. Ashcroft has visited Russia several times -- I don't know the agenda, but they've got world-class expertise on gulags. What's next - mass arrests? Maybe not. But it looks like they are certainly developing the power to do so. One thing I've learned over the years -- whatever powers the gov't has, it will eventually use.

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