Paranoia Strikes Deep, into Your Heart it Will Creep - <i>Stephen Stills -1966</i>
The only thing we have to fear is [Bush & Cheney] fear itself...<i>FDR - 1941</i>
So....what say you? Do we "throw the book" at these guerilla marketers? Do we ban freedom of speech and free expression because we have been brainwashed into being too paranoid to "enjoy our freedom", anymore?
Who is terrorizing us in a more alarming fashion? If the choice is between those who Mr. Bush has labelled "islamic facists", and Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, I am much more concerned about the damage to our psyche and society, wrought by our "leaders" than I am about foreign originated threats.
We get "hit", again and again, but the biggest "hit", is and will continue to be, to our US constitutional guarantees that our "leaders" are focussed on removing permanently.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/2/1/14100
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# There is little excuse for Boston officials who panicked their own city over an advertising stunt. Boston mayor Thomas Menino has been vocal in his outrage, promising to take "any and all legal action against" Turner networks and the advertising agency that hung electronic signs on public structures to promote a silly TV cartoon. But it's time for him to take responsibility for the overreaction and resign.
# The signs are "corporate graffiti", like the stenciled ads on city streets and taggers hired by SONY to spray PlayStation-themed "art". It's vandalism, and the scofflaw corporations that create such pollution should be prosecuted enough to make them desist. But the overreaction in Boston could have a chilling effect on public political speech - a freedom too important to lose, and on many forms of art and performance.
But the worst effect is that a city's arteries were snarled for a day while bomb-squads, nonplussed by what they were called to remove, took the devices away in their bare hands. Similar devices were found in many other cities, all of which had the sense to take them down quietly.
Sure, everyone should keep their eyes open for improvised explosive devices. But it's also important to realize that the bag left alone by some traveler is, millions of times, just a bag. While such things should be dealt with safely, overreaction like that in Boston will make many people reluctant to point out the next object that "doesn't belong there" and interrupt the morning commute of thousands. And then someday when there's a real explosive, citizens will ignore it and reports won't be made.
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Calm down, America, "dear leader" isn't worried, why should you be?:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/wa...gewanted=print
....Mark Knoller of CBS News, whose statistics on presidential trips to Crawford are so comprehensive that the White House refers inquiries to him, said the current visit was Mr. Bush’s 59th trip to his ranch since taking office; as of Saturday, he had spent all or part of 384 days there....
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<b>Even the reliable conservative, misinformation organ, "newsmax", could not put enough lipstick on this "pig" of a story to make Mr. Bush look "in charge"...riding his bicycle during a "red alert", in the middle of a week day....</b>
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...1/113947.shtml
From the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:28 a.m. EDT
Laura Bush: President Not Alerted About Plane
Commenting on last week's errant private plane scare that sent fighter jets scrambling over Washington and forced her to take cover in a bunker, first lady Laura Bush has commented that the president should have been interrupted during a bicycle ride to be told about the threat.
"I think he should have been interrupted, but I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him," Laura Bush told reporters during her flight to Jordan to start a five-day visit to the Middle East.
The White House went to red alert on May 11 after a small private plane entered restricted airspace over the executive mansion.
The Secret Service evacuated the vice president to a "secure location" and rushed the first lady and visiting former first lady Nancy Reagan into a bunker.
Despite the red alert, however, neither the White House nor the Secret Service interrupted Bush's bicycle ride in a suburban wildlife center in nearby Maryland to alert him about the threat.
In the end, the Secret Service delayed until the end of his bike ride and some 40 minutes after the "all-clear" was given to brief the president.
The first lady said that the president had not expressed any chagrin over the tardiness of his briefing......
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<b>I find it a paradox, that, with all of the fear mongering rhetoric eminating from the mouth of our "war time" president, he's still the ever vigilant, "on point", watchdog he was before 9/11 "changed everything". I predict that someday, the chidren of the folks in Boston, and around America will wonder of their parents, "what were they thinking"?</b>
In Feb., 2001, on day 18 of the new Bush presidency, we are informed that the president was in the private residence area of the white house, at least since 11:22 am, on a weekday, "working out", while the vice president was reported as "working"....
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLI....02/index.html
February 7, 2001
Web posted at: 5:57 p.m. EST (2257 GMT)
From CNN White House Correspondent John King
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 47-year-old man waving a gun at the southwest perimeter of the White House grounds was shot Wednesday morning by the Secret Service after refusing to surrender the weapon, officials said.
Eyewitnesses said the man fired two or three shots, jumped into nearby bushes and remained there for about 15 minutes as agents tried to persuade him to put down his gun. He was then shot in the leg by a Secret Service agent at 11:36 a.m.
The man's presence was reported at 11:22 a.m. to law enforcement agents on scene -- members of the Secret Service and the United States Park Police.
Law enforcement officials identified the wounded man as Robert Pickett of Evansville, Indiana. Secret Service agents said they believe the suspect was the only person involved in the incident.
Speaking to reporters at mid-afternoon, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer read a terse statement that described the late morning events, and said the president was in no danger. The incident took place shortly after Bush held a tax-cut event on the south lawn of the White House.
"At approximately 11:30 this morning, while the Secret Service was on patrol around the White House, agents heard shots fired and proceeded to surround a subject with gun," Fleischer said. "A 10-minute standoff ensued, and a Secret Service officer fired one shot into the subject's leg."
<h3>The president, who was working out in the residential portion of the White House, was never in any danger, Fleischer said.</h3> Vice President Dick Cheney was at work in his White House office and also was not in any danger, Fleischer said.
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Good people of Boston, and of the rest of America....take heed of Ari Flesicher's 2001 comments. You were <h3>never in any danger</h3>....it's just your "leaders", continuing to make you think that you are, as they pick your pocket of your bill of rights....