Monday, December 03, 2007

Classic warning signs...

How to shut down democracy and begin fascism: Step 1, invoke threat; Step 2, establish secret prisons, Step 3, develop paramilitary (contractor killers), Step 4, surveil citizens... etc. Classic warning signs...video with Naomi Wolf:

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8653&SectionName=After+Words&PlayMedia=No

Put $ where mouth is by actually being a beacon of democratic values for the world. Anyone of us can be yanked off to a secret prison with no recourse, mistakes or no. Thought we covered this in 1215 with the Magna Carta. We've rewound western civilization by 700 years: we're pre-Enlightenment, baby. Feel like a "patriot" now?

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