[R-G] Thoughts on ACLU and Some Other Things

[Macdonald Stainsby]

> NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR: August 5 2007

*snip*

 It's certainly clear now.
> But then, day after day, the same FBI agent gave the same "press
> conference" centered on "terrorism". Why? Because at that point, of
> course, the Clinton people and their presumed Republican opponents had
> teamed to ram rhough, in an atmosphere of concocted fear and hysteria, the
> 1996 Anti-Terrorism law. This provided for unimpeded Federally supervised
> "task forces" made up of state, county and local "lawmen" which then
> engaged in virtually uninhibited secret surveillance of "suspect persons."
> It also built in the Federal death penalty [which the Indian nations were
> fortunately able to resist accepting -- but no one else was.] And that
> 1996 Anti-Terrorism law, hailed by Billy Clinton, laid the basis for the
> Patriot Act and all of its other offspring -- which now flourish like
> poison ivy in a lush eastern Kansas river bottom.
>
> And that, of course, brings us right back here.
>
> Fight on -- and on.

On this note I just want to remind that it was the Clinton Administration
who *wrote* the Patriot Act, not merely the pre-cursors to it. If I
recall, after the creation of the "anti-terrorist" bills that happened in
the dust of the Edward r Muurah building (BATF, Okla. City). First was the
attacks on the supporters of the FARC and others (after the bombing of
Oklahoma City the US's bills forced a shut down of the Farc Solidarity
Committee in Vancouver, Canada; this was when they also wrote and then
shelved the thousands of pages worth of the Patriot Act, to be dusted off
mere a couple dozen months later by Janet Reno's successor. That is
important, because it lays the basis for two things:

1: the bill was NOT a Republican assualt, but a ruling class ploy to
undermine us all and has nothing to do with using the same structures to
undo the attacks on civil liberties (such rights exist through usage, not
through legal passage).

2: The patriot act was not a "response" by a scared, freaked out
administration, but a thought out plan to put certain laws and
restrictions in place. Too many of the people trying to do something about
this are Democrats, and that has left the movement for civil liberties
unable to see the forest for the trees.


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