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I think what he's trying to say, is that Bush is trying to trick the populance into giving up their freedom for security. However, there is NO way he could get away with something as blatant as Palpatine's speech.

Never say never... All it would take is another terrorist attack, and the people would fall for anything...
 
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Never say never... All it would take is another terrorist attack, and the people would fall for anything...


Lady Kate, I like the way you think. Yes it is unbelievable how fear is being used today, it is almost as if.... nah couldn't be:scratch:.
As a child I was taught that if one has Christ in their heart then there is No need for fear, now as an adult Knowing Christ IS in my heart comforts me beyond words. A frequent prayer of mine is, 'Dear Heavenly Father, Please forgive me my fear', then I go to work on mustarding up my faith by looking for the good in people/in the world. After all God don't make junk.
 
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I'd be more concerned about the nation being turned into a theocracy then Bush declaring martial law.

No reason both couldn't happen... Seeing as how most people see the "War on Terror" as a "war on Islam," if another attack were to happen, what better way to cover up martial law than to hide it in religious fervor?
 
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"Those that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

- Hermann Goering at the Nuremburg trials.
 
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No reason both couldn't happen... Seeing as how most people see the "War on Terror" as a "war on Islam," if another attack were to happen, what better way to cover up martial law than to hide it in religious fervor?

Honestly, enough people are fed up with Bush that if he tried anything, all hell would break loose. Seriously, his approval rating is somewhere in the 30% range last I checked.
 
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Honestly, enough people are fed up with Bush that if he tried anything, all hell would break loose. Seriously, his approval rating is somewhere in the 30% range last I checked.

What Mark Silva and the liberal press fail to report is that among the 24% of people who support the president, his approval rating is 100%.

Posted by: GK | October 17, 2007 10:34 AM



Public approval for the job that Congress is performing -- 11 percent in the new survey -- matches the all-time low that Reuters found last month.


http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/bushs_approval_at_new_low_in_r.html
 
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Yep it's low

Bush's approval rating remains at all-time low

Optimism about country's future fading

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Larry Downing / Reuters
President Bush is losing support from core backers of the Republican Party, according to a poll.

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updated 5:37 p.m. CT, Fri., Oct. 7, 2005
WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush’s political coalition are increasingly worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found. (continued)
 
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CUZ TEH TRRSTS R GOIN 2 GT US RITE?
Nope, because history shows they want to take away our freedoms....they tell us where to send our kids to school, want to control what we eat, drink and smoke...as well as where. They make a habit of redefining our Consitution to fit their socialist agenda. \

I could go on, but your redneck paraody indicates that you aren't interested in an honest discussion.
 
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You want to see a dnager to real freedom? elect more liberals.

Yep we have majority liberals in congress now.

Congress approval rate is aboiut 15 % now and that is about half of Bush approval rate.

Matthew 24 : 22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
 
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Nope, because history shows they want to take away our freedoms....they tell us where to send our kids to school, want to control what we eat, drink and smoke...as well as where. They make a habit of redefining our Consitution to fit their socialist agenda. \

I could go on, but your redneck paraody indicates that you aren't interested in an honest discussion.


...this will most likely be a tab too liberal for some folks.
Honestly, todays definition of conservative and liberal absolutely blows my mind. Pro-preemptive strikes = conservative? pro-war = conservative? Let's get them before they get us = conservative? Where did diplomacy go? Oops I forgot, no diplomacy for the axis of evil = conservative. AND NEVER Mind that we have kept or appointed (along with Britain) most the dictators in power so we could assess to their precious oil. What a ridiculous myth that they hate us for our freedom, it is more that they hate us for our policy that henders their own lack of freedom. Two excellant articles on this subject,

'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration.

by Tom Regan | csmonitor.com



Late on the Wednesday afternoon before the Thanksgiving holiday, the US Defense Department confirmed the contents of a report by the Defense Science Board that is highly critical of the administration's efforts in the war on terror and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report had been originally placed on the DSB's website in early November.
'Muslims do not hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies [the report says]. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing, support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the Gulf states. Thus, when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy.'​
The Pentagon confirmed the study after The New York Times ran a story about the report in its Wednesday editions. (continued)


It dies hard. It dies very hard. The notion that terrorist acts against the United States can be explained by envy and irrational hatred, and not by what the United States does in and to the world (continued)
 
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