1984 Revisited

It's coming folks.

And the harbingers are around if you simply dig for them.

We know about the lies and the other distortions, folks!

But this is symptomatic of something even more eggregious!

Consider: A small church group decided to gather its elders and thought it
was moral and correct to protest something that this government had expressed a position on.

It was the democratic process working the way it was supposed to be.
And it should make every American proud that it was the way our fore-fathers intended.

They were exercising their rights as free people in a free country.

However, the FBI didn't quite see it that way.

They hacked in on what this small Protestant minority was up to and filed a report. The report was then circulated to other interested groups. What was in this report? The report listed this organization as a "threat."

Can you imagine?

With all that is going on in the world today, a group of pious people who were responding to an issue that morally was actionable, was considered a "threat" to the country.

I don't know about you but this sets off all kinds of little red lights!

If the FBI has the time to squander on something so out of their range, why did they not do a job on detecting the real threats to this country posed by terrorists. Where were they on September 10th? Were they doing more of the same, checking out little old ladies at their crocheting classes?

Why were they not translating the files they picked up in the first raid on those who had attacked the WTC? Why did they let two of the terrorists go?
Why did they not frequent the restaurants of Atlantic Avenue where they knew the trouble-makers congregated? Why did they not urge caution knowing that bin Laden had three years earlier threated attacks on civilian airliners as we now know?

Why has the government considered it alright to cut back on the rulings extending to posse Comitatus and ended habeas corpus and counsultation with one's lawyer if accused of a terrorist act and at the same time permit our premier investigative agency to investigate little old ladies exercising their democratic rights?

Give me a break!

This is all indefensible.
And it is reminiscent of Germany in the 30's where one man felt he had the right to decide what was in the public good despite the Weimar Republic's Constitution.

What next? The burning of the Reichstaag?

Is that where we're headed?

It is alarming and a violation of Constitutional rights that individuals be spied upon for just exercising their democratic rights.
And our silence just offers these violators of our rights further encouragement.

Le Aaron