Chris Floyd article from 11/01 about this admin: Weather Report: The Hard Chill Begins to Bite

[babylonsister]

Just unbelievable! This man knew what was coming...


http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=433&Itemid=5

Weather Report: The Hard Chill Begins to Bite
Written by Chris Floyd
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Originally published in The Moscow Times on Nov. 9, 2001

It won't come with jackboots and book burnings, with mass rallies and fevered harangues. It won't come with "black helicopters" or tanks on the street. It won't come like a storm – but like a break in the weather, that sudden change of season you might feel when the wind shifts on an October evening: everything is the same, but everything has changed. Something has gone, departed from the world, and a new reality has taken its place.

As in Rome, all the old forms will still be there; legislatures, elections, campaigns – plenty of bread and circuses for the folks. But the "consent of the governed" will no longer apply; actual control of the state will have passed to a small group of nobles who rule largely for the benefit of their wealthy peers and corporate patrons.

To be sure, there will be factional conflicts among this elite, and a degree of free debate will be permitted, within limits; but no one outside the privileged circle will be allowed to govern or influence state policy. Dissidents will be marginalized – usually by "the people" themselves. Deprived of historical knowledge by an impoverished educational system designed to produce complacent consumers, not thoughtful citizens, and left ignorant of current events by a media devoted solely to profit, many will internalize the force-fed values of the ruling elite, and act accordingly. There will be little need for overt methods of control.

The rulers will often act in secret; for reasons of "national security," the people will not be permitted to know what goes on in their name. Actions once unthinkable will be accepted as routine: government by executive fiat, the murder of "enemies" selected by the leader, undeclared war, torture, mass detentions without charge, the looting of the national treasury, the creation of huge new "security structures" targeted at the populace. In time, all this will come to seem "normal," as the chill of autumn feels normal when summer is gone.

It will all seem normal...President George W. Bush signed an executive order last week overturning a law requiring the release of presidential papers 12 years after the end of an administration, The Associated Press reports. Bush officials say the President has "reinterpreted" the law – ordinarily the job of the Supreme Court under the old Republic – to mean that no papers can be released unless both the current president and the former president in question agree to it.

Historians, journalists or ordinary citizens seeking information about the actions of past administrations will have to file suit to show a "demonstrated, specific" need for access to the blocked material. The mere assertion of a "right to know" about governmental affairs will not be sufficient. Such a right no longer exists.

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[Mnemosyne]

1. Look how long it has taken

for many at DU to finally come around and see. I remember being mocked so many times when I started to compare * to Hitler/Third Reich in 2004.

I wish we had been wrong.

"Such a right no longer exists." :cry:

Where's Superman when you really need him?

[jaxx]

2. Very telling.

I ran across this a few mins ago, and he rips the dem congress pretty bad at the end of the article. Some days I wonder what is really happening.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd80.html