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Originally Posted by crxforum
The basis of my theory that GWB is going to be assasinated starts from the Patriot Act that has been established. Essentially this act revokes the constitution and rights of American citizens in time of war when the greater good is at stake than the rights of the few.
When the new Patriot Act takes effect, which it will, the average citizen of the US will hold no power and no rights. The government will essentially be able to do whatever they want whenever they want without thinking about what the public has to say about it or what their oppinion is. It would be inacting Marshal Law essentially where the army will have control over all.
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This is what will be left of the US after this happens. A martial state, controlled by the military, fueled by the draft, and controlled by a select few persons who have been playing the world for the last 30 years.
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This is the same stuff that's been spewed by crackpot conspiracy theorists for as long as we've had a government. Sounds like you've read a bit too much of it and taken it way too seriously. I'm in the military and I PROMISE you, we DO NOT want a draft. I've made this point in other posts, but believe me we have enough dirtbags, potheads and slacker criminal retards who volunteer that we don't need to go drafting them. If we did have this grand scheme to have the military run things, don't you think we'd want the best military to do it? I'm telling you, we're not going to go drafting men, women and children into a high-tech military that would cost trillions of dollars to train them to use all the neat, shiny equipment. We already can't afford the stuff we have. During your exhaustive research into the Bush New World Order you might not have noticed, but back here in the real world we're DOWNSIZING the military, closing bases, and kicking people out who don't want to leave, while you're bullshitting. So don't worry about marshal law, or even martial law. Not going to happen.
Are there nefarious, shadowy activities going on behind the scenes that you and I will never know about? Almost certainly. But if you believe that W sits in his office at night dreaming of ways to turn this country into an empire with him as his royal imperial majesty supreme lord grand poobah, and us as slaves who serve his every whim, you're just deluded. They're in place to prevent attacks on this country that should they ever happen again, will be met with public outcries of "How did our government allow this to happen again?" Since 9-11 there have been no more attacks on our soil. Other countries who have not taken the appropriate steps to safeguard their people have not been so lucky. Or are you suggesting their governments (or ours) are responsible for those too? Because it certainly couldn't be the radical Islamic fundamentalists who have been blowing themselves and those around them up for much of the last century. Suggesting that would sound prejudiced, racist or intolerant. Better to sound insane.
Everyone seems to have this idea that the day the Patriot Act passes, jackbooted stormtroopers are going to kick in your door, drag you from your bed and shoot you in the street. The Patriot Act does not remove all civil rights from all citizens like the ACLU (and of course, drug dealers, kiddie porn producers and other folks who would rather not have their places searched wihtout warning) would have you believe. Do you really have a problem with delayed notification warrants? You want terrorist suspects Achmed and Mohammed to have a few days to get rid of their fertilizer bomb and skip town before the Feds show up to check their apartment? Because I sure as hell don't. I want them caught in the act and stopped.
The Patriot Act SPECIFICALLY can not be used to infringe upon the civil liberties of citizens. Section 102(B)(2) reads:
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the civil rights and civil liberties of all Americans, including Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, and Americans from South Asia, must be protected, and that every effort must be taken to preserve their safety.
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Remember that as an American, millions of people in the world hate you. There are thousands that will kill you on sight just because of where you're from. And why? Because we have FREEDOM. Because we do what we want when we want. Oh I get it now... the government takes away our freedom so nobody in the world will want to kill us anymore? Hmm.
And the thanks the unpopular President and military get for trying to keep this country safe in an era where their every move is instantly recorded, scrutinized, analyzed and debated, their every mistake broadcast over and over for the public to ridicule, and their every success downplayed or marginalized, is the idea that we started it all for him so he could rule this country and the world for himself.
-Mikey