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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (2468)	9/5/2003 2:05:26 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

MSI, I ran across that while looking for something else, and thought it was worth posting. It was the first time I'd seen it also. From what I understand it was a letter he wrote before the bill of rights were added to the Constitution. Unfortunately, the flaws Patrick Henry spotted in the Constitution were not corrected by the bill of rights, and the outcomes he foresaw are exactly what the American people have been up against for quite some time. I don't know if our forefathers were honorable men, or if history just made them so. I suspect they had good intentions, but good intentions have probably been the number one cause of human suffering since the dawn of time. My guess is most of their good intentions were more self serving than history would lead us to believe, or the Constitution would have been written with a lot more authority vested in the people. At the same time, I think they honestly wanted to make things better and perhaps thought keeping the power to put their best intentions into law was the shortest distance between two points at the time. About the only thing Patrick Henry didn't predict is electronic voting machines with back doors to manipulate the results. Everything else was so dead on the money, it's just plain scary. On another note, I thought your comments on police being trained by the FBI was interesting. My guess is if it ever comes to a show down, the police will be mostly on the side of the people, as well as a big part of the military. Ordering an 18 year old PFC to kill strangers is a lot different than ordering a grown man to kill his neighbors. Things take on a different light when a vow to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, becomes following the orders of domestic enemies to harm the country they swore to defend. And, on yet another note, I see Bush has already gone through the $100 billion he got for his Carlyle buddies a few months ago, and wants another $60 billion on top of that.