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Ärende: Bush's America
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2. "The Long War"

This little piece of clumsy marketing died off quickly, but it gave away
what
many already suspected: the War on Terror will never end, nor is it
meant to
end.
It is designed to be perpetual. As with the War on Drugs, it outlines a
goal
that can never be fully attained ? as long as there are pissed off
people
and explosives.
The Long War will eternally justify what are ostensibly temporary
measures:
suspension of civil liberties, military expansion, domestic spying,
massive
deficit spending and the like. This short-lived moniker told us all,
"get used to it. Things aren't going to change any time soon."

3. The USA PATRIOT Act

Did anyone really think this was going to be temporary?
Yes, this disgusting power grab gives the government the right to sneak
into
your house, look through all your stuff and not tell you about it for
weeks on
a rubber stamp warrant. Yes, they can look at your medical records and
library
selections. Yes, they can pass along any information they find without
probable cause for purposes of prosecution. No, they're not going to
take
it back, ever.

4. PRISON CAMPS

This last January the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton
subsidiary
Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million to build detention centers in
the
United States, for the purpose of unspecified "new programs." Of course,
the obvious first guess would be that these new programs might involve
rounding up Muslims or political dissenters ? I mean, obviously
detention
facilities are there to hold somebody.
I wish I had more to tell you about this, but it's, you know . . .
secret.
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