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Old 12-27-2005, 10:58 AM
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Default Re: Short-term-results-oriented thinking

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All this stuff about abuses of power is fear mongering

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Stuff about abuses of power, if it is fearmongering, is fearmongering of the best type. Dismissing criticism as fearmongering is scary.


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an over inflated sense that the average American is worth watching.

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It is not the average american, or the majority of Americans being watched that you should fear. It is the very first American who is being watched, whether from a car park, a library card photocopied, a credit card purchase traced, a phone call tapped, a lawyer denied, a hearing denied that you should really fear.

Some or all of this has already happened to that first American under this administration. That is frightening, not just fearmongering.
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