For those of you not yet tired of me babbling on and on and on an on about our police state here is another fascinating look at it:
ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/singleton/
I like Glenn, but I worry for him. He keeps his home in Brazil because that is where his partner lives, thus he travels in and out of the country all the time. I figure one of these days he will be stopped and either won’t be allowed in or will be disappeared into Guantanamo (or wherever else our government disappears people). If we are really lucky, Salon will find out what happened and those of us critical toward our government (I used to think that was a citizen’s _obligation_) will have a small window to try to flee the country.
Anyway, I strongly encourage anyone who has got this far to read the whole thing. There is at least a 50% chance that this guy is going to get another 4 years to continue (finish?) shredding the constitution (not that I like the favorite on the other side) so anyone who is thinking they should support him should really think about what it means to do so. Even in the exceptionally unlikely event that people like Glenn are NOT rounded up and disappeared by this administration, it is a virtual guarantee that unless these police state changes are reversed (and how, exactly, will that happen when we keep electing people who like things the way they are (go Paul!)) they will be abused. Police state + oligarchy = feudalism, in my mind, and that means that we 99% are serfs and those of you who read about the dark ages will know the serfs didn’t have it very good. If crap like what is described in the article isn’t immediately opposed and reversed, it become set in concrete and becomes orders of magnitude more difficult to reverse in the future, probably requiring bloody revolution.
Really, the Tea Party types should be backing the ACLU fully in this, as, of course, all liberals and independents. Sadly, I expect that no one will care and the concrete will set up and there will be no escape.
