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ASsman
01-12-2005, 11:24 AM
The security is going to be a tighter than a 12 years olds...... spandex pants?
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An unprecedented level of security is planned for George W. Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20, including six thousand police officers, 2,500 military personnel, and dozens of federal security agencies on patrol.

Outgoing Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has promised an unprecedented level of security for George W Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20. He spoke to reporters yesterday at a news conference near the Capitol, where Bush will take the oath on the West Front.

* Tom Ridge, outgoing Homeland Security adviser speaking in Washington DC, January 11, 2005.

Ridge went on the detail some of the security plans for the inauguration which include six thousand police officers, 2,500 military personnel, and dozens of federal security agencies on patrol. Mobile command vehicles will also be set up along with round-the-clock surveillance of key facilities and a record number of canine bomb teams. Blackhawk helicopters and fighters will patrol the skies, and the Coast Guard plans to step up security on the Potomac River. Ridge likened the resources to those used during the political conventions last year.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced a 23-mile radius no-fly zone around Reagan National, Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International airports.

Protest groups complain that the security arrangements are preventing them from mounting effective demonstrations. Even a pro-Bush group, freerepublic.com, yesterday criticized a Secret Service edict that prevented members from waving miniature American flags during the inaugural parade.

* Elaine Cassel, lawyer practicing in Virginia and Washington D.C. She is a frequent contributor to the legal website FindLaw and Counterpunch. In 2003 she wrote an article for Counterpunch titled "Michael Chertoff: Ashcroft"s Top Gremlin Spreading Mischief from DOJ to the Federal Bench."
* Doug Ireland, longtime radical political journalist and media critic. He has been a columnist for The Nation magazine, Village Voice, the New York Observer and the Paris daily Liberation. He is also a contributing editor of POZ, the monthly for the HIV-positive community.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/12/155239
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I for one am glad Terrorists have not succeeded in changing our way of life.

Qdrop
01-12-2005, 11:39 AM
if bush was killed in an assasination....

would that divide this country further?

or would it unify us again.....much like 9/11?



NOTE TO MODS: I AM IN NO WAY INCITING OR BACKING SUCH AN ACT.

ASsman
01-12-2005, 11:40 AM
You better start running. And yes it would, for it not to, "they" would have to rub-out all the idiot Red-States too.

Qdrop
01-12-2005, 11:43 AM
\ And yes it would, for it not to, "they" would have to rub-out all the idiot Red-States too.

what?...divide or unify?

ASsman
01-12-2005, 11:52 AM
Divide (obv).

Qdrop
01-12-2005, 12:04 PM
i honestly have no idea what that would do to this country.

how would the left feel? happy to rid of him? "he got what we deserved?"

or would the country unify and get that "temporaty resolve" we all saw for a few months after 9/11?

it wouldn't even cause a hiccup in the bush neo-con camp though.
bush is but a stooge anyway...a figure head.
Cheny would just take his place and proceed with the agenda without missing a step.

actually, such an act would open the flood gates to harder line tactics, more pronounced "homeland security" (attack on civil liberties), the furthering of the republican facist machine.....

hmmm........who should Bush really be afraid of?
dude better watch his back........