Don't they realize what they are asking for is the type of power favored by
AUTHORITARIAN TOTALITARIAN DICTATORIAL POLICE STATES?
Don't they realize this makes all policemen appear to want the powers enjoyed by early thirties Nazi brown shirts? Don't they worry about the negative PR of essentially asking for powers usually associated with fascist dictatorships?
I ask this question repeatedly and it's so obvious somebody with good journalism creds must have done the work by now;
Is there a spreadsheet kind of analysis that compares the taken-for-granted Constitutional Rights we had BEFORE 9-11, and the resultant watered down remaining Constitutional Rights we are left with now?
This whole quaint "innocent until proven guilty" thing seems to have been nullied, as but one example.
I've said it before, i supported the Occupy movement, in that I believed in what they were trying to do, BUT
I don't want to get my ear drums blown out with a sound cannon, herded off to jail for up to a day, and just be generally abused if I were to participate in a public effort by Occupy exercising their former Constitutional Rights of free speech. Frankly, it's my cowardice in this age of "being careful to watch what we say".
Ahh, 9-11 sure changed everything. It gave a green light to American Fascism and then the Iraq invasion proved to our authoritarians that you can lie in front of the entire planet and nobody will do a god damned thing about it! As you will notice the oligarch's are getting more brazen by the day with their return on investment in purchasing our entire apparatus of government!
The most irksome recent example is the Jamie Dimond led efforts to repeal the portion of Dodd-Frank that prevents banks to be both investment and savings banks at the same time. So they re-legalized THE ROOT CAUSE OF WHAT TRIGGERED THE 2008 ECONOMIC COLLAPSE and almost brought on a SECOND WORLDWIDE GREAT DEPRESSION!
A tipping point might come when this new law allows a carbon copy repeat of 2008. If an event like that does not end up triggering a violent revolution in America, then we will all deserve the totalitarianism we will get!
-90% jimmy
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