http://memepunks.blogspot.com/2006/06/americas-war-on-science.html?dupe=with_honor

When I was a young lad, I had one such chemistry set. It had all the goodies in it one expected to find. Of course I got into trouble with it. Not from making explosives but from making rotten egg smell that stunk up the house. I was also into model rocketry. Even going so far as to launch my own homemade 3 stage rocket complete with a frog passenger who survived the experience of a launch in the payload section. The parachute worked just fine. Today I would not have been able to do these as a kid with the current mania about terrorists infiltrating our laws. Who ever in the world heard of having to register a glass beaker for a science experiment? No wonder we are lagging in science.

I submit to you the terrorists have won. They have drastically altered our lifestyle in ways still yet to be comprehended. You know what the amazing thing is about this? We had ONE 9/11. During WWII Britain had them every night in the form of buzz bombs coming in. Talk about an over reaction!!!

It’s a media event every time he is in public and takes time to make a public speech. The media never knows what day or event will provide the next public spectacle and fodder for the comedians from a president that can’t really be said to be the master of a single language. You would think that would be a requirement for such a position to at least be able to express oneself adequately.

The vaunted Letters Of National Security used by the FBI have with the forced exposure of the practices shown that they have been used illegally and with the slightest pretext of need, often without justification. Included within the letters are mandatory requirements that the receiver of such a notice to maintain strict silence so that even the act of doing illegal things under the cover of such letters is not to be revealed. How did this come to be? The Patriot Act of course…that needed legislation sponsored by Bush to curb terrorist activities, along with a new branch of government called Homeland Security. Both have proved to be embarrassments to the citizens of this land as it is discovered the terrorists they are interested in are the citizens of this nation with no other connection to terrorism than they exist and live in this land.

Bush and the neocons are an embarrassment to the nation. So bad a one that the only concern other nations have at present is how to survive the remaining days before he leaves office without tarred and feathered as being in association with this potential would be king.

It is being mentioned today that we are in a crisis of education. That the needed physicists, scientists, mathematicians, and other high caliber jobs of technical expertise aren’t being produced for the next generation. How can it be otherwise when religion supported creationism is replacing long accepted and proven theories in schools today, denying time needed to learn real science in favor of religion sponsored agendas? The tend for the future is guaranteed second class production of technological advances. The first place holders will go to the European nations or to China, India, and the other Asian countries while we slip back into obscurity trying to make good our debt that the politicians past and present have racked up in our name while having wars on credit and porkbarrel projects without regard to true finances.

What Bush is concerned with is that his approval ratings are plummeting into areas not seen before for presidential offices, even Nixon at his time of impeachment held better ratings. Congress is no better, in fact they are rated with even a lower approval percentage than Bush. I would suggest this is the reason Bush wants the emergency powers that allow him executive powers over all branches of government in times of emergency is that they are worried about the public’s reaction to continued business as usual. Think about it. The only way they lose this power is if the public revolts. So now you have police with the power to arrest you for nearly anything, the power of the government to hold anyone without charge for any length of time by simply labeling them a terrorist. Worse the government is moving around doing whatever they wish without accountability to anyone but who pulls the reigns of power at the top.

With this in mind it is no wonder Bush thinks that bloggers should not have any protection. It is the bloggers spreading the word of what is going on. Media being in the pocket of the megacorporation is assuring you are not hearing what is going on from where you should. The public media is no longer to be trusted for anything other than bread and circuses.

You and others believe this to be true.

” Grave threat to US national security are food producers and credit companies. With the fattest, the dumbest and having the most personal debt, the country gonna pay one day, unless these issues are addressed. ”

You and others believe this to be true.

” “The definition is just so broad that it really includes anyone who wants to post something to the Web,”

This covers both of you.
If Bush and buddies want to, they could then come after you ..
for having that opinion and voicing it.

Wealthy food producers and credit card companies could force
out your identity and sue you, for voicing your belief.

Bush and buddies, and wealthy corporate interests WANT to
be able to do this .. they NEED to.

It’s not national security that is the issue, that’s the smokescreen.
The security of the dishonest and the secretive, that’s what’s
at stake. Just think about how many things would never have
happened, if someone on the net hadn’t been able to blow the
whistle .. get the truth out in the open.

The RIAA is getting KILLED by PR, and they control all the major
media outlets. How … the folks on the internet are making sure
that the WHOLE truth is known.

The same happens to the dishonest in politics .. the internet
community outs them for what they are.

There are no secrets on the web.

It needs to stay that way.