Boy, are you hitting the mark with that one. The use of fear in this nation has become all pervasive as a control mechanism. People are so distracted by inflamatory fear mongering from the powers that be, that they allow themselves to be led into totally untennable positions. And, as for your comment:
"How long until we get our Hitler? Stalin? Moussolini?"
look closely at the people in power and watch what they will do to maintain and increase that power. We may have him now.
I fully agree! I have been anxiously watching this situation develop ever since the 2000 election when the US Supreme Court illegally stepped on states rights by overruling the Florida State Supreme Court decision to continue the recount, therefore depriving the Dems of the election they would have otherwise won, and installing GW Bush and his regime. It doesn't take a lot of study to see how the Rep. Regime has, from that moment, undertaken to systematicly, step by step, degrade, and then cancel entirely, every advance in human rights, civil liberties, environmental protections and the seperation of church and state that had been, laboriously, fought for and gained over the last half century. We are now in a position closely resembling a police state, where dissention and civil demonstration are met with brutality, police action, jail terms, and now even, apparently, with torture. No longer do we have any right to privacy, not even in our own homes, what with the 'Patriot' act allowing wire taps, web spying and total access to all records, medical or otherwise pertaining to anyone THEY CHOOSE, ARBITRARILY, to claim to be suspicious. You can't walk out of your home, today in the USA, without being under, at least, video surveilance from the moment you leave to the moment you return. They can even, if they choose, use IR technology to watch your every move WITHIN THE WALLS OF YOUR OWN HOME (unless you happen to live in a cave or deep underground). It's just not the USA that I grew up in and learned to love. I used to firmly believe that there was nowhere else on earth that could compare to the USA for personal, civic and human freedoms, and open happy life style. Well, that may still be somewhat true compared to most other places, but at the rate the USA and the Constitution and our freedoms are being degraded and set aside, and the corporate/government (should I whisper "fascist") machine is growing and gobbling them up, not to mention becoming fully entrenched, that 'prefered' status can't last much longer. Well, I've probably vented enough to put myself on any number of "lists", and I 'gotta live here', so I'd better stop there, but, that's the way the land lays, folks, and all I can do is to hope that a lot of other folks will wake up in time to do something about it.
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Boy, are you hitting the mark with that one. The use of fear in this nation has become all pervasive as a control mechanism. People are so distracted by inflamatory fear mongering from the powers that be, that they allow themselves to be led into totally untennable positions. And, as for your comment: "How long until we get our Hitler? Stalin? Moussolini?" look closely at the people in power and watch what they will do to maintain and increase that power. We may have him now.
I fully agree! I have been anxiously watching this situation develop ever since the 2000 election when the US Supreme Court illegally stepped on states rights by overruling the Florida State Supreme Court decision to continue the recount, therefore depriving the Dems of the election they would have otherwise won, and installing GW Bush and his regime. It doesn't take a lot of study to see how the Rep. Regime has, from that moment, undertaken to systematicly, step by step, degrade, and then cancel entirely, every advance in human rights, civil liberties, environmental protections and the seperation of church and state that had been, laboriously, fought for and gained over the last half century. We are now in a position closely resembling a police state, where dissention and civil demonstration are met with brutality, police action, jail terms, and now even, apparently, with torture. No longer do we have any right to privacy, not even in our own homes, what with the 'Patriot' act allowing wire taps, web spying and total access to all records, medical or otherwise pertaining to anyone THEY CHOOSE, ARBITRARILY, to claim to be suspicious. You can't walk out of your home, today in the USA, without being under, at least, video surveilance from the moment you leave to the moment you return. They can even, if they choose, use IR technology to watch your every move WITHIN THE WALLS OF YOUR OWN HOME (unless you happen to live in a cave or deep underground). It's just not the USA that I grew up in and learned to love. I used to firmly believe that there was nowhere else on earth that could compare to the USA for personal, civic and human freedoms, and open happy life style. Well, that may still be somewhat true compared to most other places, but at the rate the USA and the Constitution and our freedoms are being degraded and set aside, and the corporate/government (should I whisper "fascist") machine is growing and gobbling them up, not to mention becoming fully entrenched, that 'prefered' status can't last much longer. Well, I've probably vented enough to put myself on any number of "lists", and I 'gotta live here', so I'd better stop there, but, that's the way the land lays, folks, and all I can do is to hope that a lot of other folks will wake up in time to do something about it.