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Lets keep our heads people. Bush/Cheney is not the salvation of this country (Jesus is), but if y'all want to spend precious heartbeats comparing notes about whether the kettle is blacker than the pot, then you all can do so.

I just hope that FreeRepublic can deal with more important issues, like for example the issue of Posse Comitatus.

The Bush administration "has called upon Congress to thoroughly review the law that bans the Army, Navy, Air FOrce and Marines from participating in arrests, search, seizure of evidence, and other police-type activity on U.S. soil." reported the 21 Jul 02 Washington Post. The law in question is the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which ended federal occupation and military dictatorships imposed on the Sothern states in the wake of the Civil War. The Act's intent was to defend American's against the prospect of standing against a standing army of occupation. - a concern frequently expressed by the framers of the Constitution.

Ruling elites generally amass despotic powers amid agonies of professed reluctance, and homeland security advisor Tom Ridge followed that tradition when addressing the posse comitatus issue in a 21 Jul 02 TV interview. According to Ridge, , "it goes against our instincts as a country to empower the military with the ability arrest." Ah, but the Bush administration somehow overcame that instinctive aversion when it filed a legal brief claiming that the president and his military subordinates can designate any individual an "enemy combatant" and detain them indefinately - and that such designation cannot be challenged in court.

To me Raygun, the issue isn't support or not support of Bush/Cheney, but the DOUBLE STANDARD of big media. They ARE biased, and continue to subtley and not so subtley support leftist positions and politicians. The stark contrast to covering Cheney hecklers now and completely ignoring Clinton hecklers then is glaringly obvious, and should make us all angry. It is not reporting facts and letting us decide, but skewing the news of the day.

Have you ever considered what would happen if, G-d forbid, there was even a limited nuclear attack on any city in America? Have you considered what would happen if smallpox or another biological disease was unleashed on a city or area of the country? Would you rather there was no plan to keep these areas isolated and prevented from spreading the disease?

If there was no attempt to prepare for the unthinkable would you be the first to demand answers as to why we weren't prepared?

Hysterical suggestions of despotic powers being sought is beneath contempt at this time. Just my opinion, of course!