Cassandra's Prophesies for Troy http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/fittoncassandra/cass3.html

" Once Cassandra had been cursed by Apollo to prophesy the truth but never be believed,

Warning of disaster, that's what we're doing. And people thought we were nuts. They still do. They can't see the awful path that this could take; today, we have the Shrub's announcement of a "Homeland Defense" Cabinet position. Tomorrow, we may yet see a "Ministry of Truth". Any sci-fi fans out there who watched the series Babylon 5 know where this is leading.

Cassandra caught Hell for her troubles. We can expect the same for warning of what is about to take place. The sheeple are being stampeded into a course of action which may leave tens if not hundreds of thousands dead at home from terr retaliation via nukes, bugs and nerve gas, thousands more incarcerated without trial or writ of habeas corpus and a totalitarian governmment as the sole remaining superpower capable of enfocing a Pax Americana just like the Pax Romana did...by threat of annihilation.

I want to make something clear about such posts: I realize that I am positing the worst case scenario. My hope is that we will never have to experience the horrors about which I write. Often, when I express my fears, that is all I am really doing. I don't mean to predict doom and gloom; I just want to express how far these things can go.

I try to not apologize in this forum (FoM has expressly told me on more than one occasion that such gestures are not necessary--that we all are just trying to make sense of things--and I appreciate that), but I will say that I hope my words in comment #1 did/do not exacerbate anyone's already depressed state regarding what is going on in the country.

I do have hope. I do believe that we can change the world, even if it is an agonizingly slow process. That is why I am sometimes so negative about the possibilities: I want to express the worst so that we can work toward something better. I am saddened when such predictions are proved correct, but I am happy to report that more often than not my negative predictions are wrong.

As the good book says, "be of good cheer."

Hope is a wonderful thing. It is what keeps us coming back to this forum and expressing both our fears and our dreams.

..Dr.Dan,,your analysis is right on,IMHO.......

I say again,that this is use of the national media as a propaganda machine,in the most disgustingly devious,one-sided utilization of an owned,no longer free press yet!It has been made to appear that the whole country approves of whatever the Evil Empire wants to do.The voice of dissent is non-exsistant.There is only one basic difference between the state controlled,and sponsored media in China,the former Soviet Union,and other countries with government controlled press,is that most Americans are totally unaware of the cult-like illusion of the US media,which they continue to swallow,hook,line and sinker,,without question.

Prepare for the absurdest of times,,,the madness is only going to get worse,,all we can do is hope,,that's all we can do......

Perhaps the most disturbing part of it all,is the zombie sheeples total lack of reaction,,,BUT!,,that is only how it has been made to appear!...It is made to appear that we all support this insanity.It is made to appear that everyone in the country agrees with this absurd use of our military,in an open ended declaration of war,against a concept.,,,,,A concept that has no face,except this bin Laden guy,,,apart from that,this war is pretty much a war against ANYONE,who can be labelled as "terrorist",or anyone who has a friend,or family member who is labeled as a terrorist,,or even anyone they think MIGHT be a terrorist!

Well, then, I guess I should tell the university to stop witholding taxes from my paycheck, as they quite obviously go to support a terrorist organization (not including the U. S. government itself, $43 million in our tax money went to fund Osama bin Laden's, thus the Taliban's, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon).

Make illegal the possession of chemicals that could be used as biological weapons in quantities that cannot be justified by a ''prophylactic, protective or peaceful purpose.''

Look for them using this one in the war on some drugs, too. All they'll have to do is call heroin, ecstacy, methamphetamine, or any other currently illegal drug a "biological weapon," and therein lies another excuse to ram down people's doors, ransack their homes, cart them off to jail, and steal their possessions.

Make illegal giving expert advice to terrorists, ''for example, advice provided by a person with expertise in aviation matters to facilitate an aircraft hijacking.''

Here we go again. They're taking the back door into legally monitoring our personal communication. As soon as they identify all drug use as "sponsoring terrorist activity" (they've already made the connection between drug money and terrorists, and they aren't about to wake up and realize it's their own damn fault), every drug user in the country can be tried for treason. Those of us who support changes in drug policy, even if we do not use drugs, will also be considered guilty of treason, and so begins the latest United States sponsored global holocaust.

And don't even think about being a flight instructor; if the wrong person comes to your school, you will be held accountable for his or her actions. Talk about racial profiling, soon there will be no flight schools catering to people of Middle Eastern descent in this country. Why risk certain death at the hands of the U.S. government?

Allow seizing the property of any person, organization or country that attacks the United States, even without a declaration of war.

That's right, folks. We don't have to declare war on them; they just have to declare war on us. And they already have. If you use drugs in America, soon your possessions will be the United States possessions (if they are not already), and you will be kicked to the gutter, if not sent to the death chamber.

Drug trafficking (including passing that joint to a friend) will likely be considered a treasonous offense very soon. And treason is punishable by death.

Drug Warriors have been itching for this kind of blanket lattitude for a long time, and you can bet that they will at least attempt to use it.

The potential effects of these policies is absolutely bonechilling. Were it not for the good people I know--family and friends, including my friends here at Cannabis News, who understand the truth and are willing to speak out against the atrocities being committed by the U. S. government (I am speaking now, while the 1st amendment is still mostly intact--in a couple of weeks we may have lost that freedom altogether), I would conclude that there is no hope for the world. We are doomed to extinction if things keep going as they are.

All of this, of course, IMHO.

Dan B