Thought Police....

....thanks to the supposed 'acts of terrorism' that our government claims happened a few years
back, the almighty THEY have been eroding our constitution further and further, right before our very eyes. People are blind to it, thanks to THEIR old friend, fear. You all know fear, right? Fear has been used for quite some time in our sick society. Fear has been used by THEM to make us want more, consume more, covet our material items more, surround ourselves with needless items, to make us feel safe, secure, and with 'it.' Fear has become such an easy tool to moderate for them. They use it to control our image of what is beauty, what is cool, what is safe, what is happiness.

The last few years have been all about what is 'safe.' Thanks to 'terrorism,' we are coming closer to martial law every day. No more are the days where the people are able to rise up against a tyranical government to make things right. Now, if you are against your government, you are in a heap of trouble (you people have any idea how many 'unknown' ISP address hits I get here at the Greater Good? And when i check the map, where are they all based? Yup, Washington. I'm on to you, fukkers!).

So, Here is the latest in your government issued protection against (fill in blank). Careful what you think or say. It can be used against you in a Military Court of Law.

From the Washington post, via civilrights.org:

"A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, would also allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more individuals than previously expected before military juries, officials and independent experts said."

Read the full article here

[W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429