Below... Regards, Bob... -------------------- "Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams, 1771
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: Re: The New French Anti-Photography Law > In a message dated 12/5/01 11:40:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > There are numerous sources for additional information. You just have to > > look for them. > > > > You know I already knew that. But "other sources" can be slanted toward one > or the other view and at the same time, be no more truthful: if a "greens" or > "right" or "left" source, or "Conservative" or "liberal" source, the news > will be filtered by the politics involved. > > What distresses me most is normally straightforward American news sources, > including Television, simply have swallowed the administration's press > releases whole, parroting the administration viewpoint, saying what the > administration wants said. Maybe it's the truth. Nah! Couldn't be. Bush is a Republican. Only Democrats are truthful. You know, like Johnson and Clinton. (Of course this depends on what the meaning of "is" is.) > Bush has taken this opportunity to subvert some freedoms and subsume others. > A "Homeland Security" agency sounds suspiciously like "Fatherland Securitat" > to many, including myself. The combining of the CIA/FBI ought to scare the > hell out of everybody, especially since no one will be watching either if > them, not even Congress, our so-called elected overseers. Not true. They (and a few other organizations) are required by law to report their actions to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. I've hade the dubious privilage of having to brief them in years past. This has not changed. The committees are populated by both parties (though one Democrat - Condent(SP?) - was recently replaced.) Sorry, no photos in Senate/House intel briefings. > That massive, > invasive superspy agency will do mischief and the press, in bed with Bush, > Cheney, Powell and Rice, will stand by muted by their own near treasonous > complicity. The idea that the press is "in bed with Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rice" is a laughable rant. Get me a photo of this. Thanks for the entertainment. > This superagency will do what the popular attitude says they can: > make America "SAFE" (at any cost), including taking away individual freedoms > in the interest of "national security." Name a freedom lost to citizens of the United States. (Not including 2nd Ammendment Infringement which has been going on for years. - by who?). > Having set up this all pervasive > "Securitat," Bush has ignored Congress anyway. Meanwhile our so-called "free > press" stands by, hamstrung. By who? Oh yeah, Bush. How? Get me a photo of this too. > **We're just damn lucky we have a dividied Congress or Bush and his cronies > would have a real field day. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
