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If Talking About Dams is Suspicious, Let's Investigate Bush
So Jim Bensman, who's a fixture of just about any environmental debate in the Midwest, goes to a public meeting to discuss a dam in St. Louis and, surprise, says he'd just as soon see the dam gone. The local paper dutifully reports that Benson "said he would like to see the dam blown up and resents paying taxes to fix dam problems when it is barge companies that profit from the dam." Next thing you know the Corps of Engineers--which you'd think had other things to worry about--calls the FBI to investigate Bensman as a possible security threat. And the FBI actually bothers to follow through. All this at a time when the White House is, for the first time ever, endorsing blowing up dams.
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I often read Republican blogers saying that there are no cases in the US of people rights being eroded.
This is a clear case of just that.
Posted by: theroachman on 08/27/06 at 11:52 AM Respond
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