NP - Some Civil Rights Commissioner

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 26 12:41:38 CDT 2002


http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2002/07/26/120.html

"By their fruits ye shall know them." And by their nuts as well.

The acorns of any presidential administration never fall very far from the 
tree -- thus, the remarks made last week by one of George W. Bush's 
appointees to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission give us a pretty fair 
indication of what the future will look like if the Regime's seeds of 
tyranny ever come to full flower.

Bush emissary Peter Kirsanow told a Detroit crowd last week that America 
could "forget about civil rights" if there is another terrorist attack on 
the United States by "the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade 
Center," the Detroit Free Press reports.

What's more, such heathen devilry would cause the righteous folk in the 
Homeland to rise up and demand that the Regime chuck every last 
Arab-American into a concentration camp, Commissioner Kirsanow proclaimed.

Kirsanow -- one of Bush's many prank appointments, a "Civil Rights" 
commissioner who has spent his career opposing civil rights programs -- said 
that he wasn't advocating an Auschwitz for Arabs, you understand. He was 
just saying that the public outcry for one would be almost impossible for 
the Bush administration to withstand. (And you know they'd try really, 
really hard, too.)

"Nobody will be crying in their beer if there are more stops, more 
detentions, more profiling," Kirsanow told the crowd -- which was made up 
largely of Arab-Americans, who came to protest the ongoing, unconstitutional 
detention of Arabs without formal charges being carried out by Bush's 
biggest joke appointment: Attorney General John Jesus Jehovah Ashcroft.

In fact, not only will there be a dearth of salt in the old hops, there will 
also be "a groundswell of public opinion to banish civil rights" altogether 
if al-Qaida comes a-callin' again, Kirsanow said.

Therefore, citizens should just accept the Regime's police-state measures 
and stop bellyaching about the "perceived erosion of civil rights," the 
commissar huffed. Otherwise, it'll be camps, curfews and kangaroo courts for 
the whole damn country.



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