An uninformed populace is central to most tightly controlled societies.
If one is a Despot, benign or not, (or has designs to become one, verbalized or not) one finds it is much easier to control a population that is kept ingnorant of any facts, or opinions, that are not convenient to your plans to gain and maintain control.
Having been lulled to sleep by a spineless and compliant Mass Media (under threat of license non renewal and political retribution) we are dreamily unaware that the Press, long a bastion of freedom and the information required to keep it, has now also been emasculated.
Seems a major newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has given us a glimpse of the future, where we will be kept in the dark regarding deeds or misdeeds of our "leaders".
An article in the New York Times, (see it here) which deserved a front page banner, is buried on a back page.
According to this article, there are two items the Plain Dealer will not publish, out of fear of prosecution. These items would be of great interest to the public, according to the article.
Coming, co-incidentally enough, on the heels of the London bombings, the article is sure to gather little public attention.
So, then, who is to know what information has been kept hidden?
A smoking gun regarding a "cooked" election? A smoking gun that might lead to Presidential Impeachment? Sadly, it seems we will never know?
Another American tragedy unfolding. The Ghosts of Fascist Europe, circa 1930's must be laughing their ethereal asses off.
So, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, states the obvious truth, in equating our treatment of prisioners at Guantanamo to the acts of Nazi's an Commies, yet needs to apologize for it.
In a June 14 speech on the Senate floor, Senator Durbin read from an FBI agent's account of prisoner condition at Guantanamo Bay. The Agent described prisonsers being shackled to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures for up to 24 hours at a stretch.
Prisoners in those conditions sometimes urinated or defecated on themselves, the agent reported.
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings," Senator Durbin stated.
The Bush administration continues to claim that prisoners are being treated in accord with the Geneva Conventions. I guess the agent must be lying?
I don't know what is more disturbing, that the Administration continues to claim what is obviously not true, or that Senator Durbin caved in to pressure and apologized for telling the truth.
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Well, true to form, we find Rumsfeld, etal, rewarding their stiff armed, goosestepping minions.
Seems the Pentagon, with the blessing, if not direction of, Rumsfeld are planning to promote those senior officers who where in charge of the infamous torture camps.
Sure, they were "cleared" by military investigations. Yep, sure were.
"Oh, Mr. Fox, did you eat those chickens"? "Oh, no, Mr. Wolf, I did not." "But what about those feathers all around you, and the blood on your mouth, Mr. Fox?".
"Oh,the feathers are from the weasels chasing the chickens, just for fun, you understand, like high spirits. And the blood, oh, the blood. Oh, yes, one of the chickens fell and hurt themselves and I kindly helped him by ending his suffering. "
"Oh, well then, Mr. Fox, you are free to go. Well done!"
I find the outraged comments from the Bush administration and it's defacto propaganda arms (the US "liberal media"), regarding how "undemocratic" the Iranian election seems to be, how does that old saying go???? "A bit like the Pot calling the Kettle 'black'".
Pump your own Septic tank first. (Unplug your own toilet first, for you City Folks).
Florida? Ohio? Long lines? "Electronic" Ballots? "Rigged" selections of candidates and "electors"? I say "rigged" in the sense that no one, not already rich or powerful, can ever hope to gain a meaningfull position in either the Democratic or Republican party.
"Party"? Yep, that's the word. It describes their activities well. A party for them. The cleanup, of whatever mess they make? Well, that's up to us.
Even if a "Mr. Smith" type might get elected, you can be sure the "puppet masters" have a firm grip on tender parts of his anatomy.
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