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Do you suppose it's possible that people who own AR's and who congregate together could be conveniently designated as terrorists if SHTF?  I just wonder who is making the rules up for defining someone as a terrorist.

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exactly.. except Bush has a good record for frying the right people..

keep these decisions at the top and all SHOULD be ok..

One Born Every Minute

Funny that I should get so wound up by a badly-written Reuters story today. Yesterday I had to assure a friend, an intelligent and well-educated friend, that the following e-mail spoof she received was not a real Reuters story:

Bush OK's Summary Executions Of Some Designated As Terrorists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a surprise move sure to raise outcries from
foreign governments, civil liberties groups and others, The White House
today announced with little fanfare that effective immediately, certain
individuals whom President Bush or other high-level Administration
members have designated as terrorists are subject to summary execution
by either Homeland Security operatives, U.S. intelligence operatives,
and in some cases by U.S. military personnel.
The presidential directive applies to both U.S. and foreign citizens,
both within and outside the United States territory.
The White House gave notice of the new policy in as quiet a way as
possible, making the announcement late Sunday evening from Crawford,
Texas. The unprecedented move is thought certain to generate a firestorm
of protest from numerous quarters.

Part of my reasoning for why it was obviously fake, apart from the utterly ludicrous suggestion that the White House could keep a policy like that quiet by releasing it late Sunday, was the poor reporting and the poor wording. "They didn't quote anyone," I said. "And the writing is practically illiterate. I mean, 'numerous quarters?' 'Sure to raise outcries?'" I should have held my tongue. Evidently, the Appleson piece is life's way of showing me that a real Reuters story can be every bit as badly done as a fake one.

The hoax story made me curious, though. Who put it out there, and to what purpose? I mean, I'm no friend of Bush or the near-dictatorial arrogance of his administration, but spreading bullshit stories about executions is no way to fight it. It's not even a particularly amusing way to satirize it. All it does is cry wolf, and make the real crimes -- the detainment of thousands of unnamed citizens, the bid to light the Middle East tinderbox by attacking Iraq -- seem mild by comparison. If I was the conspiracy theory type, I might suggest the e-mail itself emanated from Crawford. Good thing I'm not the conspiracy theory type, eh?

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In other words you are saying it is ok for dubya to have his own Central American style Death Squad executing U.S. CITIZENS without due process under the Constitution. Give me a break.

The Republic is lost.

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[url]http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=3704[/url]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a surprise move sure to raise outcries from foreign governments, civil liberties groups and others, The White House announced with little fanfare that effective immediately, certain individuals whom President Bush or other high-level Administration members have designated as terrorists are subject to summary execution by either Homeland Security operatives, U.S. intelligence operatives, and in some cases by U.S. military personnel.

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exactly.. except Bush has a good record for frying the right people..

keep these decisions at the top and all SHOULD be ok..

let your local folks have the same power.. then evrey black rifle owner beware..