The brutal face of totalitarianism is beginning to emerge as the disease of Guantanamo begins to infect the entire nation. It is an inexorable progress unless some form of massive protest emerges. The mild and unaggressive Occupy movement was brutally destroyed by the police state and if there is no massive reaction the disease will spread and destroy all civil life.It is the old story of the takeover in Germany by the Nazis based on generating fear and brutalizing all reactions to objection. If a massive pushback is not soon generated it probably soon will be too late to resist. All formal politics has already been emasculated aand it seems there is a rapid movement to destroy whatever democracy is left.

It's obviously her fault for reading books and being a terrorist.

Sally Jane Farnsworth in Plastictown, Midwestern State will need to be treated this way before anyone cares, unfortunately, but after that happens, of course, it will be too late.

I direct you to previous statements that people are too stupid to change this kind of stuff (ya know when they say don't think a small group of dedicated individuals can't affect change because it's the only thing that ever has? That's because any kind of large, people's movement is only possible with enough power and propaganda to hypnotize the masses and stick your message in their head as opposed to the message in them currently. Remember, "Hope lies with the Proles...", except as Winston found out, the Proles are hopeless...You should look to Orwell. You have way too much faith in people to unify under a common goal.)

Pick your poison - the world is an apathetic, ignorant, propaganda driven cesspool. Sucks that this little girl got caught up in it.

I volunteer for a local Catholic Priest who is still under house arrest for planting flowers (over the border of a Nuclear Submarine Base, but still, in end, he planted some damn flowers...(. Shit is fucked up, and no one gives a damn.

This, my friends, is what your vote for "the lesser of two evils" legitimizes and gives strength to. THINK before you vote! Every vote says more than who you think is least bad...... a WHOLE LOT MORE! Can you, honourably, and in good conscience keep on supporting a system that behaves towards its citizens in this manner?

If you can, then be sure to keep your silence when they come for you......

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And if you don't keep your silence it seems they will surely come for you. Evidently shouting is not enough.

They took books, posters and other anarchist literature as well as black clothing. Being an anarchist is becoming the new Muslim. You are assumed to be a criminal even when there is no evidence. And the whole raid was based on an investigation relating to vandalism at the MAy Day event. VANDALISM. Its a petty misdemeanor at best, yet they have an FBI task force due a late night raid. The police state has definitely arrived in America.I also read that the raid was planned in March, 2 months before the supposed vandalism even occurred. This is outrageous. Bravo to Leah and the others for standing for truth and justice in the face of tyranny.

Alaska, you're right about anarchists - and vegans - being the new Muslims. I'm not sure why vegans pose a threat to the US government, but oodles of money is being spent following them around and monitoring all their phone calls and emails.

My feeling, Malcolm, is that radical political change is only possible when major crisis rocks the ruling elite. Their obstinate failure to address looming catastrophic climate change or fossil fuel or water scarcity means the entire capitalistic infrastructure is leaning over a massive precipice. Change is coming all right. The shape it will take will depend on peoples' ability to organize themselves in their neighborhoods and communities.

Jan, I don't think there is any democracy anywhere any more - except maybe in Iceland.

I think it's gonna rock everyone else a lot more than the ruling class (because people like the Waltons have an underground compound that can sustain a direct, one megaton nuclear blast directly above it and still maintain them for hundreds of years with clean air, water and food...or something like that. It's been a while since I've looked into it), but you're waiting for the Malthusian Event to occur in the west as well.

Phew...I'm glad we finally got that settled. I was wondering why we tracked on nearly everything else and not that. Communication breakdown...it's always the same...as they say...if they are Robert Plant, that is.

So, finally, a few of the wealthiest will flee underground and live a bit longer like rats in a dead end hole. If they had any sense at all, since they have the power, they would turn this all around and make a better world but evidently brains and money don't mix.

or, the will to live is stronger than the desire to see the species survive.

funny enough, if we were just a little dumber, this would probably be the thing that saved the species.

basically, we're too smart for our own good, but not smart enough to do ourselves any good.

funny enough, most civilizations across the universe are theorized to fail at about the point of development we're at (just about to break out into a type 1 civilization...we're a .7 civilization now. when we get to .9 is when the whole shit will probably go kablow)

@Malcolm,

While agreeing with you about 98%, I admit to being curious as to how "civilizations across the universe" were examined so as to get the numbers you quote(?).

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