2011 - revenge against those who tell us truths

[kpete]

2011

By paul craig roberts

"Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors."
~~ Lewis H. Lapham

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2011 is shaping up as the terminal year for American democracy. The Republican Party has degenerated into a party of Brownshirts, and voter frustrations with the worsening economic crisis and military occupations gone awry are likely to bring Republicans to power in 2012. With them would come their doctrines of executive primacy over Congress, the judiciary, law, and the Constitution and America's rightful hegemony over the world.

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The lawlessness of the US government, which has been creeping up on us for decades, broke into a full gallop in the years of the Bush/Cheney/Obama regimes. Today the government operates above the law, yet maintains that it is a democracy bringing the same to Muslims by force of arms, only briefly being sidetracked by sponsoring a military coup against democracy in Honduras and attempting to overthrow the democratic government in Venezuela.

As 2011 dawns, public discourse in America has the country primed for a fascist dictatorship. The situation will be worse by 2012. The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths. The vicious mendacity of the US government knows no restraint. Whether or not international law can save Julian Assange from the clutches of the Americans or death by a government black ops unit, both executive and legislative branches are working assiduously to establish the National Security State as the highest value, and truth as its greatest enemy.

more:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2011-by-paul-craig-roberts-101228-479.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. It's really telling that people want Bradley Manning punished for threatening us with knowledge.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. We are headed for "interesting" times. :(

I feel like many of us are passengers on a modern day Titanic -- we've seen the iceberg, are screaming bloody murder about it, and yet are full steam ahead right at the damned thing. Turning the ship is going to be almost impossible for us.

[patrice]

3. In an "at will" employment environment with high un-employment, the trend is really much deeper than

most of us can imagine, whether it's actually job related, or just an opinion about a supposedly un-related topic such as the relationship between religion and business.

And even if your state department of labor finds no cause, aside from specifically proving one of the legally recognized forms of Discrimination, there's nothing you can do.

[Kurovski]

4. K&R.

Important, important, important.