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Latest Action Alert : January 26, 2005

Shredding The Law Ushers in US Fascism

Comment by Larry Ross, January 16, 2005

Gonzales as US Attorney-General, would be a giant step toward a "1984" US Fascist state, under Bush and his Neo-con administration. This would have a profound effect on the world and facilitate, with a legal facade, anything and any crime the Bush Administration decided to commit. US torture of prisoners is a good example of how Gonzales tramples on the US Constitution and International Law to suit the Bush Administration. Bush and Rumsfeld authorised the torture. It was not just a few army rogues acting on their own. They were under orders that came from the top.

You can familiarise yourself with this issue by reading some of the articles below. Also, wherever you are in the world, you can inform people about Bush's nomination of Gonzales, and the potentially disastrous implications of this step, as well as informing US Senators and others in the US of your views. Whether or not Gonzales is confirmed by the US Senate, his nomination does indicate the kind of people Bush wants in his Administration and where he wants to take the American people. This is one more cause of continuing worry and active concern.

This can't be ignored on the grounds that we are not US citizens and therefor can't have an effect on US politics. The world has shrunk as the power to destroy it increases. So we are all potential victims of the wrong policies and the wrong men, not only from the US, but from other nuclear weapon states as well. Therefore we are entitled to have a say, and to buy or decide not to buy some US products, go to war if the US says so, or not go to war, believe what Bush says to believe or not, enact similar fascist-type policies in New Zealand (or other nations) or not, etc.

It's still your choice - for a while.

Larry Ross

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