[T]he Bush/Cheney/Obama regimes have made every American a suspect. The only civil liberty that has any force in the U.S. today is the law against racial discrimination. This law requires that every American citizen be treated as if he were a Muslim terrorist. The Transportation Security Administration rigorously enforces the refusal to discriminate between terrorist and citizen at airports and is now taking its gestapo violations of privacy into every form of travel and congregation: trucking, bus and train travel, sports events, and, without doubt, shopping centers and automobile traffic.[...]
The TSA has not caught a single terrorist. However, it has abused and inconvenienced several hundred thousand innocent American citizens.
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And "our" government assures us that we have "freedom and democracy." We have a police state, and everyone who forgets it is in deep trouble.
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Everywhere on earth the U.S. government prefers an autocracy that it can purchase to free elections that bring to power candidates unwilling to serve as American puppets.
The U.S. government is the most determined foe of democracy in the world. Yet, Washington lectures China, which has more civil liberties than Bush/Cheney/Obama permit Americans.
If Americans ever find the emotional strength to acknowledge the oppression under which they live, they, too, will be in the streets.
Not as long as we have food and video games.
You might not have guessed that quote is from Ronald Reagan’s former Assistant Treasury Secretary, Paul Craig Roberts.
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