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State intervention
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We are moving towards a society where the state tries to legislate for appropriate behavouir
We are cowed
Gore Vidal has had several recent interviews about the third and final book of his trilogy on America, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia. Here are some of his interesting remarks.
There is no action without reaction - (referring to the) American empire abroad (illustrated by a 20-page chart of 200 U.S. overseas military adventures since the end of World War II) and a budding police state at home.
[The government] plays off [Americans'] relative innocence, or ignorance to be more precise. This is probably why geography has not really been taught since World War II -- to keep people in the dark as to where we are blowing things up.
The second law of thermodynamics always rules: Everything is always running down. And so is our Bill of Rights.
They were suspiciously very ready with the Patriot Act as soon as we were hit. Ready to lift habeas corpus, due process, the attorney-client privilege. They were ready. Which means they have already got their police state. Just take a plane anywhere today and you are in the hands of an arbitrary police state.
We are cowed. Cowed by disinformation from the media, a skewed view of the world, and atrocious taxes that subsidize this permanent war machine. And we have no representation.
The police are perceived quite often, and correctly, in most parts of the country as the enemy.
And the liberals, of course, are the slowest and the stupidest, because they do not understand their interests. The right wing are the bad guys, but they know what they want -- everybody else's money. And they know they don't like blacks and they don't like minorities. And they like to screw everyone along the way.
Well, when you have a press that no longer does its job, you have an uninformed electorate. We have an electorate that really doesn't know what to believe about anything. You can't blame it on the people. They're just not told the truth.
One interesting thing that came out of all of that mess was now the world knows how we treat Americans in American prisons. All of that behavior, the humiliation and violence and so on, that is typical of not so much -- of federal prisons somewhat, but state prisons, municipal prisons, detention centers. This is the nation of torture - - -.
State intervention
The iron fist of the state
We are cowed
The blacklist expands
Internet - tool of repression
The story of a ‘lucky family’
The grotesque new world of fostering
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