Every proper police state has a secret police force and a super-cop to oppress the ordinary citizens. Hitler had Heinrich Himmler. The Soviet Joe Stalin had Lavrenty Beria. George "Baby Doc" Bush as Tom "The Merciless" Ridge and a so-called "Office of Homeland Security." Who better to spy on Americans and oppress them than the fanatical Thomas Ridge? As Governor of Pennsylvania, his obsession was imprisonment and punishment of as many citizens as possible. He's not simply cruel and irrational, he's ambitious and ruthless; a man who relishes exercising power over the common people. Ridge is a liar who wants to hold you down, enslave you. He promised he would serve out his term as Governor, but the lure of an American gestapo was too much for him. With Ridge, your personal liberties aren't worth a cent. Using terrorism as a pretext, he'll make the whole country into a prison. Ridge is fixated on imprisonment. His attitude is that if you're not in prison it's because you haven't been caught yet. Certainly, Pennsylvania is delighted to be rid of Ridge. He's the quintessental Republican, a political hack eager to manipulate law to favor the rich and his political cronies. For Pennsylvania, being rid of Ridge is like relief from a nasty disease. Ridge is the perfect thug-enforcer for Bush's police state. Given a few years, Tom The Merciless will strip you of every liberty and be merrily spying on your bedroom, business and movements. Before America wised up a little, the FBI was the worst menace to your personal liberty. While the Bureau was manipulated by the homosexual cross-dresser, J. Edgar Hoover, it was especially vicious. Individual rights meant nothing. Hoover liked to spy (especially on sexual matters), blackmail and oppress. Ridge is even worse; Hoover with a bandoleer in place of a tutu. For President Bush, Ridge was ideal for another reason. He's not simply cruel and politically expedient, he also knows about the shooting down of Flight 93. It's good politics to buy the silence of a fanatical Governor. On the terrible day of the World Trade Center disasters, your government shot down a civilian airliner over Western Pennsylvania. Governor Tom The Merciless knew it. The "terrorist's" reprisals on the WTC and Pentagon terrified President Bush. He panicked. He's alway been a coward. He ran into hiding. Apparently he was drunk again. It appears that hijackers made an effort to commandeer United Airlines Flight 93. Heroic passengers fought them off and foiled the attempt. When the plane was back under control, the pilot tried to land it at Johnstown airport in Pennsylvania. As the heroic pilot struggled to land his craft, it was apparently rocketed by a US fighter jet. An engine fell off, landing eight miles from the site where the rest of the plane plummeted into the Earth, heroes and all. The despicable Tom Ridge was the Governor of Pennsylvania. Like much of the media, he would aid in the cover-up of the shooting down of Flight 93. Before the World Trade Center attacks, the Bush Recession was already wrecking the nation. Republicans can't manage a national economy. They're too greedy and selfish. It's a marvel how everything they do is wrong. After the attacks, the economy absolutely collapsed. Twenty people cost the nation upwards of $2,000,000,000,000 in a week along with almost a 1,000,000 jobs! Everything Bush did was wrong. He played right into the hands of the enemy. They want us to be poor, frightened and oppressed. The team of Bush and Ridge are their instruments. America is becoming a prison.