Well, you can have anarchists at either end of the extreme left or the extreme right. I have seen both in my time. Either way an anarchist avocates overthrow of the government by whatever means necessary, with little concern about what to replace government with...
Anyway, you are precisely correct about the Patriot Act. It's roots are firmly planted in the War on Drugs (http://www.theagitator.com/archives/012337.php), which is a complete and utter waste of time and money. We should have roach motels, where users...er...make that LOSERS, can check in but can't check out, unless they can do so under their own power.
The war on drugs was really all about money. (http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/c ... reagan.htm)
As Riverwind always says, follow the money. (http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/benw ... anking.htm) The real problem here is not a War on Drugs or even a War on Terrorism but what might be more accurately described as a "GLOBAL PURSE SNATCH" than a 'war' on anything.
It is clear that the so called war on terrorism is a sham and that many U.S. banks are complicit in helping to launder the dirty money of the terrorists, most of it generated by the illicit drug trade, chiefly the opium trade out of Afghanistan. So much for the war on drugs,
In other places (http://www.nycop.com/May_01/How_Goes_th ... drugs.html) we find even more information that claims that the War on Terrorism is in reality an offshoot of the "War on Drugs" and that the whole thing is more of a Global Purse Snatch except for now the 'sucker' has changed.
So, Zoroaster, we see the term "Liberal Anarchist" (http://www.oilempire.us/drugs.html) may not be as OXYMORONISH as you would have us believe. In fact, it seems that Liberal Anarchists are an endangered species, committing suicide after writing long books critical of the CIA and the Bush family. Of course, the suicide is debatable... (http://prorev.com/2004/12/gary-webb-sto ... t-read.htm)
"Gary Webb, a prize-winning investigative journalist whose star-crossed career was capped with a controversial newspaper series linking the CIA to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, died Friday of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, officials said.
Mr. Webb, 49, was found dead in his Carmichael home Friday morning of gunshot wounds to the head, the Sacramento County Coroner's Office said Saturday."
Note the plural "wounds". An actual suicide from a gunshot to the head wouldn't leave the victim in any state to pull the trigger a second time. Vince Foster, care to comment?
AND
Gary Webb joins Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield,
and Danny Casalaro as the fourth 'suicide'
by an individual who had a detailed understanding
of the structure and workings of the Bush crime
family.
A mathematician friend of mine calculated the
odds when Hatfield died of 'suicide.'
"Examining the male U.S.suicide rate for recent years
(http://www.suicidology.org/stats2001/1999datapage2.pdf), we can
extrapolate a conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000
people, or 0.017%. The odds of 3 specific (all male?) biographers
committing suicide would be the cube of 17/100000, or 4.913 x
10^-12...about 5 chances in one trillion. (That's over 300,000 times LESS
likely than drawing a Royal Flush in 5 card stud poker with no wild cards.
DNA evidence resulting in court convictions is reliable to about 1 person
in 100,000 to 1 person in 1,000,000.) This calculation should be regarded
as a conservative estimate: the actual odds against such a "coincidence"
would be much greater. For example, if any of the biographers were female,
the odds would be even greater."
So, you see, we go on.
Watch your back.
Watch what you say.
So, Zoroaster, why do you want to know what blogs that I read on a regular basis? I just picked these up in a Google search. I meant no harm. HONEST, I didn't!
C'mon SAG and my other friends, surely you have an opinion on this one?
Maybe all investigative reportes are terminally depressed with suicidal tendancies. Maybe that is a prerequesite for becoming an investigative reporter.
QUICK! Somebody warn Bill Kurtis (http://pepperbay.com/billkurtis/) before he jumps in a volcanic flow or something.
It seems that this is more of an endangered species than sexy little American girls (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art34100.asp) on vacation in Aruba looking for love and romance.
Can anyone say Mitochondrial DNA? (http://www.dnatestingcentre.com/Mitochondrial.htm)
Boy, some people investigating deaths are much smarter than others.
A-1 P.S. I can read it now, A-1 (not his real name) commits suicide in a kinky sex act with an 18-year-old blond girl, by at the moment of orgasm making a horrible mistake and de-capitating himself instead of de-balling himself...
...the 18-year-old blonde girl was a runaway that he picked up at the local mall and is the grand-daugher of a retired CIA operative. She has been taken into custody and is now in Quantico for de-briefing, which is curious because her arrest report says that she was not wearing 'briefs' of any kind. 