propaganda, elections, Vineland, Pynchon's Intro to _1984_, etc .

[pynchonoid]

Look what Newsweek is reporting (and think about the
part of Vineland's FEER , Pynchon's cautions about
civil liberties in his intro to _1984_):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5411741/site/newsweek/

[...] American counter-terrorism officials, citing
what they call "alarming" intelligence about a
possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this
fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for
the postponement of the November presidential election
in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned.
[...] sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge's department last
week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal
Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to
permit the postponement of the election were an attack
to take place. Justice was specifically asked to
review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B.
Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S.
Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that,
while a primary election in New York on September 11,
2001, was quickly suspended by that state's Board of
Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal
government has no agency that has the statutory
authority to cancel and reschedule a federal
election." Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago
was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants
Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress
empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland
officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound,
they are taking them seriously [...]



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