Focus the Extremists!!!
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Focus the Extremists!!!
Date: Apr 22, 2010 5:51 PM
Yes, that *is* funny.
Now if only we could bottle
this venom - this hypocrisy -
we could give all them Vitamin/
Caffeine Energy Drink bottlers
a run for their money...
Greenwald, too:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/22/detention/
Look, here is the latest one:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147631
"OspA enhances HIV infection due to
the well-known immune suppression
mechanisms of TLR2 agonism
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAMCYS_APPLICATIONS.htm
but IDSA still insists 'Lyme Disease'
'is only an HLA-linked bad knee.'"
Very funny.
No end of amusement.
KMDickson
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http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.counterpunch.org/bovard04222010.html
What About the Government?
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
By JAMES BOVARD
Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the
definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign
promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to
permit government policies that few sober people previously advocated.
Prior to 2000, anyone who asserted that the Census Bureau was deeply
involved with the roundup of Japanese-Americans for internment camps
in 1942 was considered an extremist. The Census Bureau spent 60 years
denying its role but finally admitted its culpability ten years ago
after academics uncovered undeniable proof. Regardless of the Census
Bureau’s past abuses or perennial deceit, only extremists believe that
their answers to this year’s census could ever be used against them.
Prior to September 2001, anyone who suggested that the U.S. government
lead a crusade to “rid the world of evil”would have been labeled both
an extremist and a loon. But when George W. Bush promised exactly that
three days after 9/11, the media cheered and his approval ratings
soared.
Prior to November 2001, anyone who suggested that the president had
the power to suspend the right of habeas corpus and perpetually detain
anyone he accused of serious wrongdoing would have been considered an
extremist. But Bush’s executive decree on enemy combatants made this
the law — or at least the policy — of the land.
Prior to 2002, anyone who suggested that the U.S. government create a
Total Information Awareness database of personal information on tens
of millions of Americans would have been considered an extremist. But
federal spy agencies rushed forward with exactly such plans, and the
feds have stockpiled far more data on citizens.
Prior to April 2004, anyone who asserted that the U.S. military was
torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan was seen as an anti-
American extremist. The leaking of the Abu Ghraib photos and official
reports on abuses at Guantanamo and elsewhere proved that the
extremists’ worst fear had become national policy. And when Congress
effectively ratified Bush’s torture policies in the 2006 Military
Commissions Act, “extremists”came to connote people who believed that
American democracy had utterly disgraced itself.
Prior to the war on terror, anyone who advocated using tortured
confessions in judicial proceedings would have been considered an
extremist and perhaps also a medievalist. But the Justice Department
and Pentagon effectively claimed a right to use confessions regardless
of how they were acquired.
Prior to late 2005, anyone who asserted that the National Security
Agency was routinely and massively illegally wiretapping Americans’
phone calls and email without a warrant was considered paranoid — as
well as an extremist. Within weeks of the New York Times’ exposing the
government’s warrantless surveillance apparatus, Republican
congressmen stood and cheered during Bush’s State of the Union address
when he boasted of his intrusions.
Prior to recent years, anyone who suggested that Uncle Sam should be
able to take naked snapshots of all airline passengers would have been
considered a lunatic, as well as an extremist. But the Transportation
Security Agency, with its Whole Body X-ray systems, is doing exactly
that in many airports around the nation. And the TSA’s promises that
such photos will not be stored or abused are as credible as TSA’s
earlier promises that no one would be delayed more than 10 minutes
waiting in airport checkpoint lines.
Prior to the post-9/11 era, if someone suggested that the federal
government should bloat its Terrorist Watch List with more than a
million names, the person would have been considered a fool and an
extremist. But this is exactly what the feds have done — and that is
part of the reason why the watch lists have become almost useless as
well as a peril to scores of thousands of innocent Americans.
Prior to this decade, only extremists believed that the president
should be permitted to order the assassination of American citizens —
with no attempt to arrest or try the suspected wrongdoer. Yet,
President Obama recently officially made this the national policy.
Time and again, the U.S. government has adopted policies that only
extremists advocated a few years earlier. And yet, no one is supposed
to think that the government has become the biggest extremist of them
all.
James Bovard serves as a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom
Foundation and is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush
Betrayal, Terrorism and Tyranny, and other books.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci
Greegor
http://www.counterpunch.org/bovard04222010.html
What About the Government? The Slippery Definition of Extremism
By JAMES BOVARD April 22, 2010
Greegor
http://www.counterpunch.org/bovard04222010.html
A > Although these thing are probably true,
Concession. Then you proceeded to ad hom, mistakenly too.
A > I find it curious that you
A > never mentioned Obama continuing to
A > participate in some of these things.
Off point. You WANTED political rhetoric??
A > You are obviously a democrat who will
A > only point out the alleged evils of Bush
A > and Republicans. You are, therefore,
A > not on a righteous crusade here, but
A > you motives are to slander
A > conservatives while masking the
A > genuine evil actions and desires
A > of liberals.
Nope.
The author of the article, James Bovard, is a well known Libertarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bovard
Are you that one Republican I heard about
who does NOT feel betrayed by the many
RINO politicians in the last few years?
Or are you a leftist weenie impersonating
the "rabid Republican" ?
Either way, ""Anonymous"", you are a cartoon of yourself.