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Don't Executive Orders override constitutional laws under the Patriot Act? I don't feel like doing research at work because the connection on this computer is slow, so please [like I even have to ask around here] correct me if I am wrong.
I don't really think this is up for conspiracy theory though, as it is - the essence here is that the US Government seems to be increasingly stationing troops within its own country, with anticipation for a terrorist attack - why now? Why not 5 years ago?
I don't think anyone is actually trying to say that Bush is about to tell all his soldiers to open fire on American civilians tomorrow or something - there's no indication of something so radical, and you'd have to be some paranoid internet nut to think so... Uhhh...
But that's just how encroachment works - you move slowly and cautiously, under the red flags of most peoples' sensibilities. I mean, most people are probably totally ok with this - after all, if it's in the name of homeland security, and I don't have to give up anything, sure, why not? It's really quite innocuous and barely even affects my everyday life, so why should I care? You close a road one day. Three the next. Then you start installing military checkpoints, but only at large events at first. Then all over the place. Soon you have troops marching in the streets, asking people for their Identifications - you're lenient at first, so as not to stir up people's concernes in the matter, but then people begin disappearing - you probably see where this is going. You tighten the grip gradually, eventually making any uprising by the people impossible, and you do this by convincing them that they've nothing at all to fear anymore.
I'm not saying this is going to happen, of course - I have no evidence of such. It could be truly harmless precautions, just as stated. But it seems to me that people who allow themselves to be under the rule of an invasive and militant Government deserve to be subjugated as such and most certainly have been in the past.
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