We must fight the terrorists, err flu, with all we have

The fascist bastard that's posing as the president of the US doesn't think he's done enough to destroy the few remaining rights that the citizens of the United States have. Now that the American public has pretty much gotten immune to his drum beat of defeating the terrorists he has had to come up with another panic button to get citizens to continue handing over their freedom. The latest on his list is avian bird flu. Quite a brilliant tactic, sadly enough. He's managed to change one invisible enemy to another.

With terrorism you never knew who, exactly, was a terrorist so you had to suspect everyone. You were fairly certain they had brown skin, but it could be a white person too so the government needed to be able to access everyone's records and monitor us without probably cause to make sure it wasn't our neighbor. Now anyone could have AVF, they might have it, but not look sick so we must give the military unprecedented power to ensure that it doesn't spread.

This is eerily reminiscent of 9/11. A major event happened that made everyone panic and trust the government to take care of us. This allowed Bush to take unprecedented and illegal actions, but everyone was so scared they just let it happen. Now, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, which also happened on Bush's watch, people are scared again and I'm afraid are going to be stupid enough to do it again.

Weren't the changes that Bush made supposed to allow the US government to avoid another 9/11? I know the argument has been made before, but if the government couldn't respond effectively to a disaster they saw coming how are they going to respond to one that they can't? After four years, billions of dollars, an illegal and unwinnable war, and a shredded bill of rights we are no safer, but according to Bush we will be if the military get to act as police.