Infrastructure of a police state

No - capitalism bankrupted them all by its insane gambling, as you know. It now wants us to eat grass so that the thieves can get bigge3r bonuses. Extreme rightists really are weird!


Free market capitalism is all about freedom for the individual and the rule of law. Sadly today we have a bastardized economic system that is NOT capitalism.

And you would prefer not returning to free market capitalism, but to a totally socialist system...which of course, is slavery for the individual with all wealth and power held by a small ruling elite.
 
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Free market capitalism is all about freedom for the individual and the rule of law. Sadly today we have a bastardized economic system that is NOT capitalism.

And you would prefer not returning to free market capitalism, but to a totally socialist system...which of course, is slavery for the individual with all wealth and power held by a small ruling elite.

Freedom for about 5% of the population, and their total control of the law and everything else, as you know. I intend to move to a system where the people who do the work get the benefit, overthrowing the insane dictatorship of the rich. The working class doesn't have slaves - only the rich need that vomitous crap.
 
It is scary.

When will Americans wake up? Our government is not for us and by us. It is against us and history tell us once a government turns against the people, the people suffer greatly.
It is easier for people to believe that our government is benevolent and in turn, people ignore all of the bad things that our government does. Somehow all of that "unknowing" gets them off the responsibility hook. They are not forced to feel shame or a duty to act. Thus they cannot be blamed for those bombs getting dropped on Pakistani children or those American citizens left to die at Benghazi. So people close the dialogue box. They don't want to know the truth because knowing may cause outrage or shame. Perhaps some embarrassing scandal. It becomes easier and easier to ignore the immoral conduct of your country. Getting involved causes conflict. You are forced to take a stand. You might even be wrong or suffer ridicule. It is all risk, no reward. So they behave like cowards. That is easier.
 
It is easier for people to believe that our government is benevolent and in turn, people ignore all of the bad things that our government does. Somehow all of that "unknowing" gets them off the responsibility hook. They are not forced to feel shame or a duty to act. Thus they cannot be blamed for those bombs getting dropped on Pakistani children or those American citizens left to die at Benghazi. So people close the dialogue box. They don't want to know the truth because knowing may cause outrage or shame. Perhaps some embarrassing scandal. It becomes easier and easier to ignore the immoral conduct of your country. Getting involved causes conflict. You are forced to take a stand. You might even be wrong or suffer ridicule. It is all risk, no reward. So they behave like cowards. That is easier.


Yes I suppose you are right with that, at least with some Americans. Some are just plain ignorant and others chose to be ignorant.

However I think many Americans do not wish to be cowards. They are the ones who must come forward and save the nation, otherwise we are doomed. Sadly many who have come forward to bravely attack the status quo and the power elite get savaged by the media and the power elite.

I suspect the establishment has been doing its best to destroy the Tea Party and now we have the attacks on Rand Paul and Justin Amash. More is coming...
 
'Leaders' can only go where their followers want to go in a democracy.

If so, then Armies in democracies have their work cut out for them. A military strategy based on asking the troops where they want to go might well result in defeat!
 
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an excellent example of the concept of doublethink as created by George Orwell in the definitive and relevant 1984.

The USSR was a society, allegedly, where a vast state apparatus spied on everybody and persecuted
dissidents. This is very bad.

The USA, definitely, has a vast state apparatus that spies on everybody and persecutes effective dissidents. This is very good.

I have never written that I "love" the USSR or "hate" the USA.

Get it right

Comrade Stalin

You're making the point that the USSR was a police State, and that the US is becoming a police State. I agree with you.

The Obama administration has consistently ignored our Constitutional rights, enforced the laws it likes, ignored the laws it doesn't like, and selectively enforced other laws based on political beliefs, religion, and skin color. Nothing is more indicative of police-State tactics than the behavior of this President and his followers.

At the heart of the NSA surveillance issue is the personal character of those who administer the program. INDIVIDUALS can be trusted or mistrusted. Governments are simply the instruments of those individuals who administer them. If we expended our National sweat on teaching good moral character and punishing bad moral character, most all other problems would eventually go away.
 
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CIA Intimidating Employees & Foreign Assets in Benghazi ‘Cover-Up’

"According to Robert Baer, a CNN analyst and former CIA employee, "If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it's called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they're looking for something, or they're on a fishing expedition. But it's absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly,"
CNN's source claims that this is a trend of intimidation that the agency is carrying out. In an exclusive communications in the CNN report, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well." Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."

So they are polygraphing them every other week to see if they have leaked any information. What's going on?
 
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