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Interview with Daniel Ellsberg

Louis Lingg writes

"BuzzFlash.com has posted an interview with Daniel Ellsberg.

An excerpt: 'I remember reading once that George III said, "I desire what
is right. Therefore anyone who disagrees with me is a traitor." And that was the exact attitude and attribute
of kingship that our founders wanted to get away from and sought to do so by the way they designed the
Constitution. And we're moving away from their concept back to that of George III. In fact, when I look at
George Bush -- would that be George IV or V? It's really up to us to decide whether we prefer to be an empire or a democratic republic. The citizens of this
country, if they really look at the risks of trying to run the world unilaterally and imperially, arrogantly and
brutally, and the risks of retaliation and of terrorist response, and of failing to deal with worldwide problems
that require collaboration and cooperation from many states, they're likely to oppose those policies. And if
the policies are going to be proposed, they will have to be kept secret, which means the abrogation of
democracy. And dissent will have to be put down and repressed in ways that our Bill of Rights makes
difficult, so the Bill of Rights will have to go.

And that's what's happening right now. The Bill of Rights is in the process of being quietly repealed.'

Ellsberg's thoughts on Iraq and material related to his new book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, can be found at www.ellsberg.net."