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To: Road Walker who wrote (293776)	7/7/2006 8:32:34 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574098

"Over the last few months a series of revelations have confirmed what should have been obvious a long time ago: the Bush administration and the movement it leads have been engaged in an authoritarian project, an effort to remove all the checks and balances that have heretofore constrained the executive branch. Much of this project involves the assertion of unprecedented executive authority — the right to imprison people indefinitely without charges (and torture them if the administration feels like it), the right to wiretap American citizens without court authorization, the right to declare, when signing laws passed by Congress, that the laws don't really mean what they say." Call it what it is. Fascism. "And he has done so with the approval and encouragement of the same people now attacking The New York Times for its alleged lack of patriotism." Call them who they are. Fascists. Is there a meat hook in Dubya's future? Or a bunker and a bullet?

To: Road Walker who wrote (293776)	7/12/2006 3:26:10 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574098

Those of us who tried to call attention to this authoritarian project years ago have long marveled over the reluctance of many of our colleagues to acknowledge what was going on. For example, for a long time many people in the mainstream media applied a peculiar double standard to political speech, denouncing perfectly normal if forceful political rhetoric from the left as poisonous "Bush hatred," while chuckling indulgently over venom from the right. (That Ann Coulter, she's such a kidder.) Finally, the MSM realizes what its been doing. They have been supporting the very guys who would take away their right to free press.