The "Bush Regime" theory explained: in response to debatechick, her comment. | Progressive U

The "Bush Regime" theory explained: in response to debatechick, her comment. Progressive U:

"I am not pressing anyone to believe these things. Really, it's a vast underground networking of conspiracy. There is rumor floating around that he was going to try and overrule our Constitution., more accurately, 'Material breach of the Constitution.'
Supposedly, he's been looking for a loophole to be president for however long he likes and not have any interference. They're saying he'll be the next Hitler, some kooks are even saying we're going to get microchipped with a 666 code, the government is going to enslave us by tagging us like animals, and Bush is going to be the Antichrist, maybe even the one Nostradamus prophesied, and that it'll be Armageddon! I'm not religious though, so I don't really believe that bit.
That's just rumor. I just got too much stuffed into my head from Alex Jones to the movie on the voice behind George Bush. I just don't know what to believe anymore sometimes. There's too much befuddling conspiracy theories on George Bush, Bush's involvement with Skull & Bones, being a part of the Illuminati, trying to raise a police state, martial law, etc. All rumors right? Very extremist views, I will have to say, but they exist. There's a whole culture of people who believe these things. I'm not saying I believe them all if at all.
All I really believe anymore is that I will live, I will die and there's something way bigger than me happening out there."

White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters

White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters: "A document cited by President Bush in his recent speech at the Capital Hilton Hotel on how to 'win the war on terror' cites conspiracies as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to 'address' and 'diminish' the problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
On Tuesday Bush referred to the strategy paper as 'an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001,' that takes into account, 'the changing nature of this enemy.'
The document says that terrorism springs from 'subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation,' and that 'terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda.'
The terminology echoes President Bush's speech (video below) to the UN General Assembly on November 10th 2001 in which he stated, 'Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.'"

McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom

McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom: "Republican Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web.
McCain's proposal, called the 'Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act,' encourages informants to shop website owners to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who then pass the information on to the relevant police authorities.
Comment boards for specific articles are extremely popular and also notoriously hard to moderate. Popular articles often receive comments that run into the thousands over the course of time. In many cases, individuals hostile to the writer's argument deliberately leave obscene comments and images simply to sully the reputation of the website owners. Therefore under the terms of this bill, right-wing extremists from a website like Free Republic could effectively terminate a liberal leaning website like Raw Story by the act of posting a single photograph of a naked child. This precedent could be the kiss of death for blogs as we know them and its reverberations would negatively impact the entire Internet. "