Various items: free speech v ‘community’, lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state
The core western political liberty is being slowly eroded by a toxic combination of the worst human attributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/14/free-speech-libya-drones
I talk about free speech from time to time here, but sort of give it short shrift in my focus on the police state. However, free speech is also being steadily eroded in the great USofA so I will devote a post to attempt to provoke thought amongst my reader(s). I particularly like this statement of Glenn’s:
…westerners have a difficult time believing Turley’s warning that free speech is being severely eroded in the west. In part that inability is due to … those who do little other than spout power-serving conventional wisdom and shallow, trite orthodoxies are never the targets of repression and thus, in their self-absorption, believe it is not happening for anyone…
The oligarchy will take away our rights reluctantly as we stamp our feet, shake our fists and insist that those rights be stripped from us. Scary, but true, in my view.
Glenn also talks about the surveillance state as well (and the debacle that is Libya) which are also good reading. Being somewhat of an insider regarding the surveillance state I need to limit my comments on that topic, but it is an important subject so I figured I would emphasize it a bit.
