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Date sent:      	Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:43:42 -0400
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject:        	FC: The ugly truth about Republican "conservatives," by Kevin Tuma
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http://www.libertyforall.net/2002/archive/sept29/ugly-truth.html

   The Ugly Truth About the
   Republican Party:
   The Myth of GOP Conservatism
   by Kevin Tuma

   As a paleoconservative, I find myself these days looking back at
   the Clinton Administration with a sort of warm, golden nostalgia.
   Much has changed since those days...and not for the better. To
   anyone with even a basic understanding and respect for the Bill of
   Rights, the United States, since September 11, 2001, has begun a
   nightmarish descent. To put it simply, the Bush White House has put
   the Constitution on the chopping block in ways the Clintons would
   have never dared to attempt.

   The US public---naive and obedient as always--blithely sucked up
   the maudlin flag-waving and crocodile tears that accompanied the
   passage of the Patriot Act and the Office of Homeland Security.
   Authorities can now invade homes without warrants, arrest people
   without charges, and jail people without trials.

   The Feds have declared Posse Comitatus obsolete, and they are
   creating hordes of military police to be unleashed upon the
   country. A new branch of the military is now on the drawing board,
   to deal with "domestic threats"--i.e., common American citizens.
   Despite the fact that we are not at war, the government continues
   to hold hundreds of military prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
   apparently will deal with them using military tribunals. People in
   the Press continue their ongoing demonstration that there's no lie
   the Federal government can tell that they are willing to expose,
   and no usurpation of power that they will ever find objectionable.
   Even the United States' 'shadow government' has been openly
   discussed--and no one dares to criticize the concept. Orwellian
   newspeak abounds.

   [...]



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