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Hugo Chavez

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Bush's Police State
« on: November 04, 2006, 12:19:21 AM »
Just sitting next to a friend who expresses an anti-Bush opinion can get you into big Secret Service trouble in George W. Bush’s United States.
By Frederick Sweet
Recently on Michael Feldman’s National Public Radio show “Whaddya Know?” a high school junior told the audience how he and his friend had recently been stopped on a city bus by the Secret Service.

The two high school students had obtained tickets from an insurance company to attend a pro-Bush campaign rally. Evidently, before the students could get off the bus, the Secret Service already knew who they were and that they had worked for John Kerry’s campaign. That was enough for the students to be labeled “national security risks.” Unless they turned around and went home, they would be arrested, warned the Secret Service agents.

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http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=891

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Re: Bush's Police State
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2006, 11:07:07 AM »
  Tuesday can't come soon enough.

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Re: Bush's Police State
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2006, 11:57:49 AM »
tuesday is the reason that shit is allowed to happen >:(

history repeats itself

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The burning of the Reichstag six days before the election was the pivotal event of the campaign. A mentally-disturbed one-time Dutch Communist was arrested in the building and, while the circumstances of the fire are disputed and will never be conclusively known, the fire was portrayed by the Nazis as the beginning of a communist revolution. With the threat of communism looming, Hitler's government persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to authorize several emergency powers in the Reichstag Fire Decree, which (among other things) suspended civil liberties and habeas corpus rights. The Decree enabled Hitler to have the Communist Party's offices raided and its representatives arrested, effectively neutering them as a political force.