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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

"Security" has a lot of meanings:
1: the quality or state of being secure: as a: freedom from danger : safety 
b: freedom from fear or anxiety c: freedom from the prospect of being laid 
off <job security>
(Merriam-Webster)

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] More to it;was RE: Welcome to the United Socialist 
States


> Rebecca, most of us don't fear that BO desires his own brownshirts.  But 
> he did, in fact, say what is reported, he said.  A  civilian national 
> security force is 'not' in the description of the peace corps nor in a new 
> super-charged Americorps, except maybe in BO projections.
>
>  Why did he say "civilian security force" rather than the more innoucuos 
> descriptors available?  Had George Bush said said something about a 
> "national civilian security force" , smart leftists like Naomi Wolf & 
> Arianna Huffington would have been wetting themselves.  He said, in fact, 
> exactly what it is reported he said.  Always question authority, whether, 
> or not, you have supported that authority ....................bobford
>
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> --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Rebecca Lewinski <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [Homestead] More to it; was RE: Welcome to the United Socialist 
> > States
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 11:31 PM
> > Rebecca here... I was checking the blog of a favorite radio
> > talkshow host in the Seattle area, and then popped over here
> > to see that the same subject was being discussed.  Click the
> > first link to hear the statement that is causing the ruckus,
> > then click the second to hear the entire segment.  Took the
> > sinister out of it for me, but maybe I'm just naive.
> >
> > Most people in the area think of Dave Ross as being as
> > being right down the middle of the road, though he does lean
> > a bit to the left on many issues. Here's the blog
> > excerpt from The Dave Ross Show, KIRO 710 am--he makes a
> > good point in the use of technology and creative editing to
> > produce propaganda:
> >
> > Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 1:44 pm
> >
> > Congressman Moronized by You Tube?
> > Monday,
> > Georgia Republican congressman Paul Broun said he was
> > worried about
> > Barack Obama's promise to set up a "civilian
> > national security force."
> > That, said the congressman, is "exactly what Hitler
> > did in Nazi
> > Germany..."
> > The only excuse for this statement I can come up with is
> > that Rep
> > Broun saw this widely circulated YouTube excerpt of a
> > speech made in
> > Colorado Springs on July 2:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDoHZ0hVUY
> > He isn't alone:  more than a million people have seen
> > it -- doctored in various ways.
> > Maybe Rep Broun was in a time crunch, but it wouldn't
> > have been that
> > hard to find what came before the excerpt that's been
> > getting all the
> > play:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0oxqV_k2Gs
> > As for the Tubers who have edited this speech to remove the
> > fact
> > that Obama was talking about the CCC and the Peace Corps,
> > and who imply
> > that this type of national service is similar to the
> > Gestapo -- they
> > slander every American who served their country through
> > these
> > organizations.
> > I use this rule of thumb: the truth of a video is directly
> > proportional to its length, and inversely proportional to
> > the number of
> > edits.
> > But I acknowledge that in a free country, you have the
> > right to try
> > to moronize as many people as technology permits, and
> > YouTube is making
> > it easier than ever.****************************
> >
> >
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