Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Concentration camps in America? Hmm, let me think.

Earlier this week, I read an excellent post over on the Information Clearing House website by Sheila Samples. It was titled, "Good Americans -- Democracy's Grave Diggers?" In it, Samples describes the systematic dismantling of the United States by Bush's disciples and compares it to what went on in Germany in the 1930's.

I call it an excellent essay because it's so alarming. The part I found to be the most unsettling was Samples' talk of concentration camps, to wit:

Bush has done nothing with more treasonous malice and less forethought than dismantling and dishonoring the US Constitution and its attendant Bill of Rights. ..... He will not stop until the United States is a full-blown police state and he's the high-sheriff. We will soon discover, too late, that inalienable rights no longer exist, and both Good and Bad Americans who think Bush's bold "vision" of being a dictator is too fantastic, too unrealistic, to be taken seriously will soon find themselves in free-fall into one of the hundreds of concentration camps scattered throughout the nation. Staffed. Guarded. Ready and waiting.

Now before you dismiss Samples' rant as some anti-Bush extremist reaction, know that she's a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She may well know of things we are not privy to. Not yet anyway. Soon maybe.

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