[Austin-ghetto-list] Bush the terrorist?

[Jon Ford]

Bill-- good letter, and I think you read Bush well.I'm sharing this one with 
my friends at work!

Jon

>From: "Bill Irwin" <billi@aloha.net>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: [Austin-ghetto-list] Bush the terrorist?
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:13:46 -1000
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>terrorize; 1. to fill with terror or anxiety: scare.  2. to coerce by 
>threat of violence. (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
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>No, I am not talking about Bush's war plans which would fall into the #2 
>definition of terrorism.  I am referring to the #1 meaning - to fill with 
>terror or anxiety - scare.  For that is what the US government seems to be 
>doing to the American people.  I saw on TV how police and security forces 
>are pulling over trucks and cars seemingly at random to search them for 
>whatever, how they now plan on putting Army troops at airports, how they 
>station Coast Guard cutters and navy ships in our ports, how they fly war 
>planes over our cities, how they continue to station National guard troops 
>in New York even though NYC police could do the job, how they keep dwelling 
>on airport security, how they require two forms of ID to walk around in 
>certain parts of NYC, and in general try to alarm the American people.  
>Even here in Hilo we have a Coast Guard ship sitting in the middle of the 
>bay "guarding Hilo" from what I am not sure - maybe they think a band of 
>Arab terrorists is going to stage a surf-board assault on Hilo beaches and 
>blow up some coconut trees.  I don't really know, but it seems to me that 
>they may be trying to scare or fill with anxiety the American people.  Of 
>course there might be other reasons - maybe they know something that they 
>are not telling us, or maybe we are witnessing a security guard riot in 
>which security forces run out and guard anything they can get to for no 
>reason.  It seems to me that the government is trying to scare the American 
>people even further for it seems to be working in Bush's favor - he is 
>riding high in the polls, Congress passes measures with no opposition, the 
>forces of repression are getting their way, and America will be able to 
>establish bases in  Afghanistan right on top of a newly proposed pipeline 
>to the West (see previous posting by Roger - brainfood).  In any case, the 
>whole effect seems to be frightening the American people (terrorize; 1. to 
>fill with terror or anxiety: scare).  They are trying to and succeeding at 
>manipulating our minds!
>Bill
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