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Fire Walk With Me

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Mon Jun 10, 2013, 12:59 AM Jun 2013

They are attempting to normalize the step-by-step elimination of the Constitution. [View all]

Because TERROR!

Just like the phony, massively profitable "war on drugs" before it, the "war on terror" is a neocon scam brought forward into today.

Please note that there are serious discussions on DU at this time regarding when and where we should set aside the Constitution itself.

Because TERROR!

With the militarized police response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, 7400+ citizens brutalized and arrested in what seriously amounts to domestic terrorism (force and threat of force against the civilian population in the interest of having them alter a political position or behavior), we have effectively lost the 1st Amendment, in terms of serious, get in their face and tell them to do what's right modes, of civil disobedience.

With the war upon TERROR!, with the neocon/Bush FISA and other warrantless wiretapping schemes and other, even worse surveillance state automata, we have lost the 4th Amendment. And some here are actually putting forth arguments about when and where this must occur.

Give away the Constitution, and you will find it not so very easy to reinstate. Consider this.

Also consider their exit plan for the war on TERROR!

There isn't one.

Consider THAT for a moment. They are creating the state of permanent warfare depicted in George Orwell's "1984".

They are attempting to get us to accept as normal, that the Constitution -must- go away BECAUSE TERROR! And it all stems from a neocon power grab, the project for a new American century. There is zero reason for Democrats, Occupiers, hell, anyone to accept this neocon bullshit.

But how does it occur?

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." ~Noam Chomsky


Such as, when and where to set aside the Constitution of the United States of America.

Please watch for this here and elsewhere. It is anti-American. It is anti-Constitution. It is pro-neocon. FUCK the neocons, and those who would say we should support their plans. We have also lost the right to a speedy trial and even representation in court through the 2012 NDAA section 1021, so that's another Constitutional guarantee summarily snipped away essentially forever, right before our eyes.

ENOUGH. Resist with all your passion and knowledge, those who would burn the founding documents of our country

BECAUSE TERRORS!
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Thank you to the DUer who pointed out and awoke some of this within me. n/t Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #1
The neo cons have royally fucked this country up. mick063 Jun 2013 #2
Agree. KICK Th1onein Jun 2013 #3
Huge, huge K&R woo me with science Jun 2013 #4
The terror meme is very productive and they've stepped up the pace. snappyturtle Jun 2013 #5
Perfectly and beautifully stated. Thank you! K&R n/t markpkessinger Jun 2013 #6
And yet, when asked what is the most important issue on the minds of Americans sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #7
I know that you know that TERRA! is a superb distraction from jobs, and this: Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #8
Good point Sabrina. It's not a democracy if you choose to live under total authoritarian rule. rhett o rick Jun 2013 #11
Keep an eye out for them. Challenge them. Point out that they are supporting the gutting of our very Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #40
I have tried but it is hopeless. Their need for the comfort that authoritarian rule gives them rhett o rick Jun 2013 #47
NONE ARE MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED THAN THOSE WHO FALSELY BELIEVE THEY ARE FREE. lunasun Jun 2013 #63
They don't need to get rid of the whole thing... Javaman Jun 2013 #9
Actually, Bush called it "a G**d**ned piece of paper," the good Christian patriot that he is. WinkyDink Jun 2013 #12
Yes... DissidentVoice Jun 2013 #46
Does the 1st really exist anymore?... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2013 #50
Good point. nt Javaman Jun 2013 #66
This sounds an awful lot like 2nd amendment fundamentalism ucrdem Jun 2013 #10
I honestly don't think so although you could be correct. I think it's Neocon driven and is byeya Jun 2013 #14
That's more or less what I mean. ucrdem Jun 2013 #15
Our Constitutional rights ARE fundamental to this democracy. How odd that you would sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #17
I repeated no such defense you're making things up as usual. ucrdem Jun 2013 #19
So, why are Liberal Democrats who expect their representatives to abide by the oath they took sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #21
I agree with you and thanks for setting me straight. I will say this: I think ther middle east byeya Jun 2013 #18
Thanks and it's funny you mention it because that's exactly what's going on. ucrdem Jun 2013 #22
Yes, the President could easily have taken the bait by now and it's to his credit that he has not byeya Jun 2013 #23
I'm an Occupier. Fuck the neocons (if you didn't see that in my OP), fuck Israel's government. Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #38
Keep up the good fight! Occupy! -nt- b.durruti Jun 2013 #60
I'm an Occupier, not a militia man, but thanks for validating the Chomsky quote and the point of my Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #35
And that is why this is so scary nineteen50 Jun 2013 #59
A little "Minority Report"-ish, eh? As Woo Me With Science mentioned elsewhere, Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #61
It was early in the Reagan administration when the words terror and terrorists were pushed by Ron byeya Jun 2013 #13
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Jun 2013 #16
knr forestpath Jun 2013 #20
kick woo me with science Jun 2013 #24
The war on terror is really a war on American citizens. Initech Jun 2013 #25
terror? WTF undergroundpanther Jun 2013 #26
ENOUGH. Resist with all your passion and knowledge, those who would burn the founding documents of o clarice Jun 2013 #27
Keep in mind that the feds consider Occupy to be a terrorist organization. backscatter712 Jun 2013 #28
+1 woo me with science Jun 2013 #33
Absolutely. As Woo Me With Science pointed out in another thread, Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #36
The 4th Amendment is darned inconvenient to your local totalitarian. Laelth Jun 2013 #29
I rec'c this, and went to bed. You've said so well what I have been thinking. Gregorian Jun 2013 #30
What NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan together couldn't accomplish... Octafish Jun 2013 #31
Exactly and well said TakeALeftTurn Jun 2013 #32
The Enabling Act. Germany 1933 formercia Jun 2013 #34
I think we are by-passing the need for such an Act. nm rhett o rick Jun 2013 #67
Who is Terror. Phlem Jun 2013 #37
K&R. nt DLevine Jun 2013 #39
Kick because I have been paying attention since 2000, and particular attention since 2004. nt silvershadow Jun 2013 #41
Highly recommended DU link: Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #42
This is what happens when you run "government like a business" - haele Jun 2013 #43
Point Taken matt819 Jun 2013 #44
And to vilify and discredit each other based Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #45
Kick. rhett o rick Jun 2013 #48
Big K & R Lifelong Protester Jun 2013 #49
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed AtheistCrusader Jun 2013 #51
K&R MotherPetrie Jun 2013 #52
The Constitution was hand-written on paper. That's why the NSA is unaware of it. tclambert Jun 2013 #53
Perhaps we should start all future phone conversations by reading the Fouth Amendment... n/t Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #57
All these "war on -----" have common threads WHEN CRABS ROAR Jun 2013 #54
It's like Pterodactyl spray. Can't prove it is or isn't DirkGently Jun 2013 #55
We're all Germans now. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #56
FUCK the neocons indeed! ~nt~ b.durruti Jun 2013 #58
NDAA seemed not to raise the outrage it deserved by most lunasun Jun 2013 #62
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2013 #64
+1 uppityperson Jun 2013 #65
K&R ReRe Jun 2013 #68
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