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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Red Heeler who wrote (463222)	9/22/2003 11:10:18 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769667

LOL! Boy, that's for sure. It'll just be one of those little-known humorous anecdotes from long ago ... "Grandpa, you mean there was a time when the Big Government couldn't even come in your house and arrest you in the middle of the night without going to court? Wow! Who was it that kept Government from doing that? They are so powerful, with their black ski masks and machine guns, I don't see how citizens were ever that powerful. Besides, our teacher tells us if we aren't criminals, we don't have anything to worry about with interrogations in the back rooms, and that we SHOULD tell on our parents if they have wrong books and say the wrong things. Right?" "Yes, Timmy, there was such a time. We citizens used to have guns, even in our houses! The Government couldn't arrest everyone at once, so they stuck with looting the treasury, and left the rest of us to work as best we could to pay taxes for the wars around the world. Then, it was discovered that there was a big scandal, the biggest in the history of the USA! And after that, there was greater terrorism, martial law, and large detention camps, for our own good, where everyone watched Fox 24 hrs a day."