Tyranny and George W. Bush

Napolitano has unlikely credentials. He is Fox New’s senior news analyst. He is a small-government Republican, who brags about how he gave Bush crucial information that helped him out-maneuver Gore in the 2000 election.

However, he believes deeply in the constitution and is horrified at how constitutional rights have been eroded, particularly under Bush and the Patriot Act. He is a great explainer, always illustrating legal points with a prosaic example.

He has his own website.

You would be amazed, as an American citizen, or a tourist in America, how you have almost none of the traditional civil rights or legal safeguards left. All manner of law-enforcement officials can do whatever they want to you with nothing more than a self-written warrant.

From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end-of-life for several million people and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

The CIA like to joke that their assassinations are suicides involuntarily administered, to be carried out by the Agency’s Health Alteration Committee.

The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains torturers all over the world. The ;School of the Americas; in Ft. Benning, Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all over Latin America.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind
~ George Orwell

Orwell’s novel 1984 becomes more relevant every year.

• The technology to monitor every utterance, movement, keystroke used routinely to spy on everyone.
• Articles disappear, are edited and censored, are rewritten without record of changes.
• Those who resist, such as Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden are not just jailed, they are tortured in state-of-the-art ways.
• The government devises a specialised language for lying to people.
• Vilification of leaders of other countries to build group spirit.
• The government teaches children to spy on and betray their parents.
• We have even gone a little further, monitoring people’s thoughts so they cannot hide anything.
• But by far the most important, the people meekly submit.