The Executive Order Guidelines will be vetted by the same Justice Dept. and White House lawyers who recently defined torture out of existence, for prisoners of the US.

It is expected that 'civil liberties' will be handled in a similar fashion.

Whatever the case, if, as expected the Department of Reelection Security achieves it's mission of getting Bush back for 4 more years, the Constitution can kiss it's parchment good-bye.

Empire Watch: aren't u and others saying no to war and greed ? Why are you mocking others who believe the same...enuf to be pacifists themselves???

Do you know how hard a position that is to take?

Why do u insist on name calling like "pacifist morons" ??? Where are u coming from ? Are you and others trying to rallying pacifists to yr agendas??

If we can't get along fighting the "Evil Empire" what will happen when we are left w/o the empire??

I am quite serious about this. What is fueling this hatred?

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I can not fathom how someone can ask such a stupd question! So what... U think showing love to evil will make it go away?

the system is PURE EVIL... Not any individual... even Bush himself or even Kerry.

They simply succomb to this evil and if they, cops, military do not relinqusih themselves from its service then they stand to be terminated by those of us on this earth who have tolerance for averything except EVIL.

Sorry... Your methods don't work. But true they hold some value while you as an obviously good-willed individual are of the highest value.

Golly, the nice policeman's writing nifty messages here, too. Now, we're pacifist morons but, we're not gonna get fired up enough to do the bidding of the evil emperor and get all violent. When you report back to your watch commander, tell him I have seen you both, floating at the bottom of my goldfish bowl.

back in 2000 at the DNC in LA, the cops arrested almost the whole Critical Mass but in the long run they lost a civil suit and had to pay the arrestees thousands each.

the cops need to look tough but they're just screwing themselves and the taxpayers and the environment over the whole time.

take heart, bikers! the cops have a losing battle ahead of them

250 arrested just from Critical Mass.

Man, it'll probably be 10 times that during Central Park on Sunday.

And that's just from the pot smoking, lol.

i looked good & hard & saw maybe 17 arrested on 2nd ave; HALF WERE COPS. also, present on the sdewalks were some mentally unstable men oddly cleaned up and w/ cell phones yelling shit at cops, demonstrating a wonderful example of how to "provoke" them. the cops didn't seem to be listening. they were beforeland either paid off or told if they did so-and-so they could stay outa jail.

conspiracy u say? more like public knowledge aquired thru the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). T'was a tactic used to finally crush the movement in the early 70's. Duh.

If u don't already know this, rent "Steal This Movie" and pick up on it.

The moral of this story is WATCH WHO U TALK NEAR IN JAIL. oh, and shut them shits yelling at cops up. educate the young ones who don't know any better yet, and tell those paid provocateurs to go get a real job.

I am from the baby boom generation that protested the Vietnam war. In the early '70s, when I was walking in a peaceful march down a street bordering the U. of Minnesota, I saw a man in a leather coat use his elbow to smash a bank window. He ran down an alley. Several protest marchers ran after him. They came out of the alley rubbing their eyes because the agent provocateur had a can of mace. Unfortunately for the provocoteur, he had selected an alley that was fenced off, hence there was no escape. I peered through the bank window and saw this unsavory character in the back. He was showing his credentials (obviously Government ID) to the bank manager. The manager proceeded to the front of the bank and locked the doors. This was perfected by Tricky Dick Nixon. I'm sure that GWB will take a lesson from his playbook. There will be agents in the crowd, either police plainclothes or GWB agents. If the crowd doesn't start something, one of these agents will. The goal is to make the Democrats and John Kerry and his followers look unruly, or terrorist-like. Peaceful protests must rule. The protest must make its message known through sheer numbers. The press loves any kind of violence. If there is none, then they will have to report on the sheer numbers of people who dislike GWB and everything that he stands for.

the women getting arrested looks sad i the she is a sweet person