Wednesday, April 04, 2007

GOP Fascism, Bushista Style

Read more about the outrageousness that is the GOP these days:

The Secret FBI Unit Which Interrogated Protestors and then lied about it. Did they lie to a federal court, or was it an "understandable oversight" - of which no official had a reasonable "recollection"? I learned about it from Daily Kos and the poster there learned about the story from John Cole.

The Bushista' Republicans have given out scientific Gag Orders to Scientists who might say things they ideologically disagree with. See, ""CLIMATE AND OCEAN SCIENTISTS PUT UNDER NEW SPEECH RESTRAINTS — Any Scientific Statements 'of Official Interest' Must be Pre-Approved"" and this Knight-Ridder report, regarding the gag order. Hey, the Soviets used to do this. It just shows, sometimes, the more you think about a subject, the more it infects your own thinking. The GOP has become the American version of fascist or communist. It's not surprising, but it is surprising that people who claim to have any affiliation for libertarianism claim allegiance to such a party. The GOP has seen better days.

From Peer.org:

Washington, DC — Federal climate, weather and marine scientists will be subject to new restrictions as to what they can say to the media or in public, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under rules posted last week, these federal scientists must obtain agency pre-approval to speak or write, whether on or off-duty, concerning any scientific topic deemed “of official interest.”

On March 29, 2007, the Commerce Department posted a new administrative order governing “Public Communications.” This new order covers the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes the National Weather Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Commerce’s new order will become effective in 45 days and would repeal a more liberal “open science” policy adopted by NOAA on February 14, 2006.

Although couched in rhetoric about the need for “broad and open dissemination of research results [and] open exchange of scientific ideas,” the new order forbids agency scientists from communicating any relevant information, even if prepared and delivered on their own time as private citizens, which has not been approved by the official chain-of-command. . . read the rest here

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