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• Saturday, August 30, 2008 03:59 PM

  Kitt

  I was referring, in part, to another poster who asked how the American people could tolerate the fascist Bush regime and why weren't they out marching in the streets. My response is below. I was thinking of all the people who elected Bush twice and who really don't understand what this government is or what it's capable of. The ones who still think some students from Hamburg did 9/11 and that Bruce Ivins sent the anthrax letters or that Saddam Hussein did or that Iraq was invaded because of 9/11 or that Afghanistan was. They've responded to my posts often enough with ignorance and venom because they really don't want to know the truth. Most of them don't know what happened in 1968 or if they ever did they've forgotten or they thought those 'dirty hippies' got exactly what they deserved. These people don't understand that Bush and Cheney in just eight short years have turned America into a police state and they certainly don't understand the dangers it poses to them, personally.A good example is the Australian twenty something who flew to America to meet up with an American girl he'd met online. For no reason whatsoever he was targeted at the airport, questioned, handcuffed and deported. He's now banned from entering America. I want you to understand: this man had done nothing. He had committed no crime. He was not armed. He was no danger to anyone and yet the police had the power to arrest him and deport him and to ban him from entering America again. There are plenty of people posting on salon, not to progress debate but to air their prejudices and muddy the waters who would refuse to believe this story. I realize that telling those people the truth may be a waste of time but if you don't have an attachment to the truth and believe things can get better then you're caught up in the politics of despair. I wasn't trying to be a smarty pants. I see what's happening in America as a virus that can spread to the whole of western democracy. Some astute commentators would say it's already begun and judging by all the Americans who responded on the internet to the Australian man's story saying similar things had happened to them, change is not only needed it's urgent.

  remember remember the 5th of November

  Why aren't they out marching in the streets? Well, I don't know if you recall the protests in 1968 (something else Condi failed to mention in her rambling, incoherent speech about Russian invasions)where the police beat protestors to a pulp?

  Or the anti-Vietnam rally where the police savagely beat the guy who wrote 'Born on the Fourth of July'- a Vietnam vet. He was in a wheelchair and the police only showed some shame when they stripped him at the police station and saw he was wearing a catheter because what happened to him in Vietnam meant he had no bladder control as well as no ability to walk or to defend himself in any way. A bit like a Guantanamo detainee. America will move up a notch as a police state if McCain gets into the White House. Your country is in grave danger- and not from the people they've got locked up in Guantanamo. You called it what it is -fascism.

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