Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Yes, it IS that bad

Bob has a couple of posts spelling it out.

From a journalist at the RNC:
I would rather live unprotected from terrorist attacks than in a society that resembled New York City during convention week.

At the GOP convention podium, Republican speakers urged delegates and TV viewers to re-elect President George W. Bush because he is best able to protect us from the terrorists who are bound and determined to kill our families and destroy our freedoms.

In and around Midtown Manhattan, convention-goers got a taste of life in a society where the overriding goal is to stop attacks at all costs. It was the bitter taste of losing one's freedoms, albeit in this case for the short duration of this national convention.

It was Fortress New York. For those of us with the proper papers - a neck-load of colored and numbered badges and IDs granting entry to Madison Square Garden and surrounding sites - the anti-terror lockdown meant endless annoyances, hassles and humiliations. For those who tried to protest the convention goings-on, things were worse.

From an Ann Arbor citizen:
At our weekly noon-time anti-war demonstration today (Tuesday), our banner was cut down by a federal agent. As usual for the past two years or more, it was tied to a tree and a post, both about a foot or so outside the sidewalk edge. This is the first time we've been told that we shouldn't do it. The two agents involved acted and spoke in a very hostile way, quite different from the friendly one we have seen many times before. Also, the feds called the Ann Arbor police, who arrived after the banner was cut down.


When the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar

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