2.2 De Beaugrande

2.2 de beaugrande

Abstract The current US ‘Administration’, under the guise of ‘Patriotism’, has launched the most devastating attacks on social justice and domestic civil liberties in the nation’s history. In particular, two so-called ‘Patriot Acts’ effectively polarise the citizenry into ‘patriots’ versus ‘terrorists’ and grant the ‘Attorney General’ astounding powers, such as ‘directing that an alien be removed to any country or region regardless of whether the country or region has a government’. As a ‘discourse analysis’ of these Acts can show, the hidden agenda includes detecting and silencing dissent against an illegitimate government that seized power in 2000 through a massive fraud which the major US media refused to report.