"When The Levee Breaks..."

Some things that seem to go together.

When The Levee Breaks (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant/Memphis Minnie) http://www.led-zeppelin.com/EMl4.html

If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, (X2)
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, (X2)
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
Don't it make you feel bad When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned, (X2)
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....

Statement Number One: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Statement Number Two: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve."

The first statement is a quote from Hitler's right hand man, Hermann Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial how easily he and his fellow Nazis hijacked Germany's democratic government. The second statement is a quote from Bush's right hand man, John Ashcroft, defending the Patriot Act and explaining why dissent will no longer be tolerated in the age of terrorism.
http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm

Patriot Act Passes, Few Americans Notice
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=258

A fledgling alumni group headed by a former campus Republican leader is offering students payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies.
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/education/details.cfm?id=39577
further reading: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=263

Damn Liberals - they will destroy this country!
“There are 50,000 professors with the views of… [Colorado high school teacher] Jay Bennish, who are anti-American, they’re radicals, they identify with the terrorists, they think of them as freedom fighters. It’s a huge danger for the country,” - David Horowitz
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=265

Quote and more on the history of Liberal bashing.
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
--Harry S. Truman http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060303_SomeDaysareHarderThanOthers.php

Bush declares war on freedom of the press
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/03/bush_declares_war_on_freedom_o.html

That about sums it up.