vox
14th April 2002, 19:29
The campaign against dissent is being led by President George W. Bush, who has said repeatedly that "you're either with us, or you're against us." His press secretary, Ari Fleischer, has warned: "Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do."
Attorney-General John Ashcroft, the FBI's boss, told Congress: "To those ... who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists — for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of goodwill to remain silent in the face of evil."
Full Article (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0414-01.htm)
Couple this with the Ashcroft Raids, starting to look more like the Palmer Raids everyday, and you can see the US taking a giant step backward. The right to dissent is a fundamental right of democracy. Instead, we get a new spin on the "love it of leave it" mentality. In a move of great Orwellian doublethink, we are told that we must destroy freedom in order to save it.
vox
Attorney-General John Ashcroft, the FBI's boss, told Congress: "To those ... who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists — for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of goodwill to remain silent in the face of evil."
Full Article (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0414-01.htm)
Couple this with the Ashcroft Raids, starting to look more like the Palmer Raids everyday, and you can see the US taking a giant step backward. The right to dissent is a fundamental right of democracy. Instead, we get a new spin on the "love it of leave it" mentality. In a move of great Orwellian doublethink, we are told that we must destroy freedom in order to save it.
vox