VIDEO-NAOMI WOLF: "WHAT'S AHEAD IS SO HORRIFIC THAT WE HAVE TO IMPEACH & PROSECUTE" (Australian TV)

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http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/feature_stories/article_2346.asp

(Video preceded by commercial for film "Lions for Lambs")

[brazos121200]

1. Bush's rhetoric abroad touts Democracy, but his actions

at home certainly conform to all dictatorship's ten steps to fascism. Many analysts think he has already enacted all ten steps, which is a troubling thought indeed. The Democrats in congress seem unable or unwilling to do anything to stem the tide to dictatorship. If this country does, indeed, drift to fascism in this time, the shame will be not only upon the regime of George W. Bush, but also on the members of Congress who did nothing. To sell your country out for perceived political or financial gain is the definition of treason.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The dems are dysfuncitonal just like the legistlature

was in both Italy and Germany at the end stage... Chile didn't have that, but that is because Pinochet disolved it.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

3. K & R

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4. More Naomi Wolf (Nov. 5): A "Paper Coup," and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan

I have argued that in the closing stages of a `fascist shift', events cascade. I am hearing about them, even across the globe. Here in Australia I hear from the nation's best-know feminist activist, and former adviser to Paul Keating, Anne Summers, who was also at the time this took place Chair of the Board of Greenpeace International. Summers was detained by armed agents for FIVE HOURS each way in LAX on her way to and from the annual meeting of the board of Greenpeace International in Mexico, and her green card was taken away from her. `I want to call a lawyer', she told TSA agents. `Ma'am, you do not have a right to call an attorney,' they replied. `You have not entered the United States.'

Apparently a section of LAX just beyond the security line is asserted to be `not in the United States' -- though it is squarely inside the airport -- so the laws of the US do not apply. (This assertion, by the way, should alarm any US citizen who is aware of how the White House argued that Guantanamo is not `in the United States' - is a legal no-man's land -- so the laws of the US do not apply.) Toward the end of her second five-hour detention she asked, `Why am I being detained?' `Lady, this is not detention,' the TSA agent told her. `Detention is when I take you to the cells out back and lock you up.'

Last week in Boston, while attending Bioneers by the Bay, I heard that one of the speakers for our event, an environmentalist named Gunter Pauli, was going to miss the time of his scheduled speech; he had been physically taken OFF THE PLANE by TSA agents and had to take a much later flight. More chillingly, the camerawoman doing my interview said that another well-known environmental writer found that his girlfriend was effectively `disappeared' for three days as she sought to enter the US from Canada. Lisa Fithian, an anti-globalization activist, was denied entry across the Canadian border in 2001 and was offered the choice of turning back or being arrested.

A friend emails me a story from USA Today about a 24-year-old college graduate who testified before Congress about her family of immigrants and the difficulties they face; shortly afterward, the entire family was arrested by immigration agents. Another online piece reports that Blackwater is setting up operations along the US/Mexico border and an insightful post on Daily Kos describes how the TSA list will revert from the airlines to the management of the Department of Homeland Security shortly and that by February we may well face the need to apply to the State for permission to travel. If this proposed regulation goes through, we will move from 1931 to about 1934--when the borders started to close-- with the stroke of a pen. Jews in America have hardwired into their DNA a sense of the distinction between those who got out before the borders closed and those who waited a moment too long.

MORE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/a-paper-coup-and-black_b_71067.html

[earth mom]

13. They are targeting Environmentalists here people! Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up!

:wow:

[blm]

22. They CAN'T wake up - tips, flag pins, and endorsements are way more important to their lives

dontchaknow?

Democracy is SO 1979. Get your Fascism on and join the Kool Kidz.

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24. What hurts is that they're targeting folks cleaning oil off of birds in San Francisco Bay

this weekend. That's a miserable job, and to think these people are now targeted for their beliefs as well is very disturbing.

[AikidoSoul]

5. Naomi Wolf is right. It is cascading now and we must impeach immediately

or it will be too late.

It may be too late already as there are other maniac fascists waiting to get control when the reins are dropped by Cheney / Bush. There are too many pieces put into place right now that point to this future for America. It is the saddest thing in the world to even think about. Unfortunately, even solid DUers are afraid to think about this future... and too many are ridiculed for thinking these thoughts out loud.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Recommended to one and all. Take a few minutes and watch

the republicon homelanders are trashing America now, and bringing us an ugly, amoral and brutal totalitarianism.

[blm]

11. Not without some help from a few Pied Piper Democrats.

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[SpiralHawk]

18. Pied Piper Dems may be helping, but the republicons are RESPONSIBLE

And there is no way the republicon homelanders should be allowed to worm out of responsibility...

Make no mistake: the republicons are the TOTALITARIAN FASCIST FEAR-MONGERING GREEDHEADS.

[blm]

20. I agree, but realized long ago that there are Dem forces doing the protecting

and who assure that accountability for BushInc will NEVER happen in their administrations.

[femrap]

7. I feel that *'s last year in office (possibly)

will be his cruelest. I think dissenters are going to be disappeared. And next fall, all out war on Iran which will include a return to the draft.

She's right....we must Impeach and Prosecute.

[blm]

8. Not gonna happen - Bush2 is already off the hook - Bill Clinton said so.

He sez the American people don't want Bush and Cheney to be made accountable - go figure.


Uh...Bill...how did it work out for the country the LAST time you made that decision FOR the American people and FOR the Democratic party?

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html


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Any shot at the current president is an automatic applause line with a Democratic audience. But rather than taking the easy ovation, Clinton gently deflected an audience member's suggestion that President Bush be included in his list of global problems.

"Yeah, Bush and Cheney," he said. "I could sit here all night and make you laugh and cry and stand up and cheer talking about the president and the vice president. But the country is over that. Let's get the show on the road again."

http://www.lvrj.com/news/11044976.html


Moving past serious illegal operations of Bush1 helped BushInc to grow stronger throughout the 90s while left unchecked by any oversight and led us straight to Bush2.

[mmonk]

9. Who made him king?

[blm]

10. Um- I'll take Jackson Stephens and Poppy Bush for 500, Alex.

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[mmonk]

12. .

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14. Right blm. Add to that Clinton's bizarre "how dare you" scolding, and his chummy relationship with

George H.W. Bush, and one begins to wonder if Bill Clinton hasn't indeed lost his mind.

In addition, one of the more disturbing points made by the new documentary "Endgame" is that Clinton seemed to be anointed as the next U.S. president at the secret meeting of elites attending the Bilderberg conference in 1991. The movie goes on to explain why this is significant. It makes one wonder whether Clinton's allegiance to members of the elite takes priority over his allegiance to the Democratic Party, or to principles we thought he stood for.

[Independent_Liberal]

16. You believe everything you hear?

By saying, "Not gonna happen," you're accepting defeat and the fact that your country will descend into fascism.

[blm]

19. I fight it by shining a light on it. The corpmedia STILL ignores the light and

so do too many Democrats who are now SUPPORTING the continuous protection of BushInc by supporting Clinton2.

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15. This insightful comment below Naomi Wolf's blog posting DESERVES EVERYONE'S ATTENTION:

The President of Pakistan is a dictator, true, but what about the Musharraf at home?

On May 9th 2007 George Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive 51.

The Directive says that if the President labels any event a "catastrophic emergency," he can "coordinate" an "effort among the executive, legislative and judicial branches" to narrow government for the sake of "continuity."

Unopposed, a single person who "coordinates" an entire government is a dictator.

Pervez Musharraf discussed the possibility of, in effect, coordinating all the branches of Pakistan"s government earlier this year after the Chief Justice challenged his authority. But in the words of one journalist, "the fact that the option has been used sooner rather than later caught many an observer unawares."

A few months from now will someone be saying that about Bush"s option to simplify government in America? Last week the White House said that the President is now issuing "administrative orders" to "implement policy" without legislation from Congress. The media reported and moved on. So yes, if in a few months there is a new kind of American government, many an observer and many a citizen will have been caught unawares.

Americans had better put aside ordinarily important matters like expanding health coverage for children. These are not ordinary times. With powers taken since 2001, today the President can, without a court order, read Americans" mail, listen to their phone calls, take their property without explanation and imprison them for years without charge. Bush can torture.

The Bush Presidency is itself a "catastrophic emergency." Every American who can speak should now be talking about the removal of Cheney and Bush.

[blm]

23. I agree - this 'let's move past Bush's crimes' crap being pushed now is criminal

in itself.

[noise]

17. Dorgan is paying attention

Similarly, Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, who chairs the Democratic Policy Committee, said Friday it would have been an “extraordinary” move for Congress to filibuster a presidential Cabinet nominee.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mukasey-filibuster-would-have-been-wrong-move-2007-11-09.html">LINK

If professional athletes are subject to drug testing...

I can't believe he made such a comment.

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21. Huh?

I'm sure your comment makes good sense, it's just that I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

Help me out, noise. Comment further please? Thanks.