[lit-ideas] Re: Bushism and Fascism
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:27:40 -0500 (EST)
Not only is it farcical, it's expensive. Every time police departments go on
high alert, those people get paid overtime. That money comes from somewhere,
and that somewhere is taxes. It's absolute, utter manipulation for political
reasons. Not only that, the whole security thing in this country is a joke.
It's been privatized and it's just one big cash cow to milk. There's little,
if any security coming from the security industry. Case in point, the response
to Katrina. If we can't respond to Katrina, how would we respond to a nuclear
attack, the punch line to which is that a nuclear attack is an utterly
preventable scenario that we're doing nothing to prevent. NYC got so fed up
with Homeland Security that they stopped relying on them and took their
security into their own hands.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2007 1:19 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bushism and Fascism
>
>Eric wrote (of the color-coded 'terror threat' warnings):
>
>> Then it became a form
>> of manipulation in the hands of the wacko left ... who adduce elements
>> of fascism in it and use it to manipulate the views of the uncritical.
>
>Sorry. I thought it was a joke from the start. I don't see myself as
>part of the wacko left. I see that the terror threat one morning is
>orange. What the hell am I (or any other ordinary citizen) supposed to
>do? As an efficient way of informing local police departments all
>across this great land of ours it strikes me as farcical. What are the
>police in Dundee, Oregon supposed to do? Or the police in
>Chicago, if it comes to that.
>
>At least the color-coded forest fire danger warning signs are informative.
>
>> Yeah that orange code, dude, proof we're all fascists. Where'd Dave go, man?
>
>I'm not sure how this is a response to anything I wrote.
>
>Robert Paul
>
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