"creeping dictatorship"

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Jul 7, 2002
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please note, this collection of links were not by me. it was
compiled by Phil Agre
u can get on his email list at: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html

further arrogation of war powers based on absurd arguments
(Article I, Section 8: "The Congress shall have power ... to declare war")
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020826.atc.11.ram
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61040-2002Aug25?language=printer

about this "secret court"
("someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, ...")
http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la-oe-turley26aug26
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/27/opinion/27BAMF.html?pagewanted=print
http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110002181

"about 3% of the US adult population is in the US correctional system"
http://www.reuters.com/printerfriendly.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1369469

Delaware Police Stir Controversy by Compiling Database of Future Suspects
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020826/ap_wo_en_po/us_future_crime_database_2

"police pepper sprayed reporters and photographers covering the march"
(protests against Bush policies in Portland)
http://www.kpdx.com/Global/story.asp?S=907583&nav=2cFk3gTHAqwk
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/18585.php
http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=17932&group=webcast

How Lewis Powell's Attack Memo Changed America
(long-winded but interesting)
http://www.mediatransparency.org/stories/powell.htm

more on the Washington Times' slander against the NEA
(it's incredibly ugly, and the machine has spread it from coast to coast)
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082602.shtml
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082702.shtml

jargon watch: the Wall Street Journal's jargon-laden apology for Ann Coulter
(announcing that casual smears are a permanent feature of conservative society)
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000617.html

jargon watch: utterly mechanical application of the "perversity thesis"
(study how sketchy and evasive his "evidence" is -- messages first, then facts)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020816.shtml