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PRESSTV.com branded terrorist. Is the Alternative Media next
Err, no...we all are.
Pointing the US Surveillance Apparatus at the American People
New categories of individuals under the purview of state "counterterrorism" investigations
by Tom Burghardt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=10774Quote:
As Mike Van Winkle, a spokesperson with the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC) infamously told the Oakland Tribune back in 2003, "You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest). You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."
There you have it, the criminalization of dissent.
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As we have seen throughout these eight long, dark years of the Bush administration, the geopolitical machinations of the U.S. ruling class have created nothing but disaster and suffering. From Afghanistan to Iraq and from Hurricane Katrina to the ongoing nightmare that is "Hurricane America" in the form of the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout, ruling elites will do everything in their power to "keep the rabble in line."
In a political culture such as this, we have all become "suspects."