It seems that there is no longer any point in droning on and on about the ‘impending’ police state, it is now fully embedded in concrete:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – “disposition matrix” – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list
How long did this take? Less than a generation, it seems. Thinking back, pre 9/11, it seems that there were limits to what our government would do, at least openly (I have no doubt that the US equivalents of 007 ran around whacking people, but it was deniable and not widespread or institutionalized). When Bush Jr. started to grab at executive power the Dems put up a vociferous show at being objectionable, but when Obama went even further (way further!) the come up with idiotic rationalizations that all is well. Constitution? We got no stinkin Constitution!
What happened to Ron Paul? Is there any chance to write him in and get him elected?
