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you know zhao i wouldnt admit this to anyone else on dissensus but often i really do think they are preparing for something. my tendency is to think of it being a sudden enviromental meltdown or a peak oil thing or soemthing but i guess it could actually just be cos they like fascism.
thank you. i don't have the time or inclination to address your points, my life is upside down, but one last comment. in my (admittedly simplistic) view, human nature doesn't change very much, when we become 'something else' we only mask what we are. some of these masks are very respectable in that they cover up our bad traits, see diplomacy, manners, and some not so much in that they magnify our faults, see ultranationalism, xenophobia, etc. what they tell us is that at heart we are irrational and fallible. we tend to favour those near to us, we are emotional, we don't think everything through, we are easily deceived and easily led to the wrong conclusions. i do think the boat can be steered in a different direction, you are doing that every day in your own way, but i don't believe you can redress these faults in a permanent way. i would like nothing more than a universal basic income, the banishment of the arms trade, a federal solution in palestine, etc., but this is all too reasonable. having said this, i admire your idealism, there is nothing wrong with it (as long as you don't kill anyone).that's all.
Exactly 220 years to the date after the Bill of Rights was ratified, the US Senate today voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite detention and torture of Americans.
Speaking before the Senate this afternoon, Sen. Lindsey Graham (Rep-SC) told his colleagues, “I hope you believe America is part of the battlefield.” The United States is at war, he insisted, and anyone alleged to be in opposition to the US government’s game will now be subjected to military-style detention indefinitely.
As RT reported earlier, one provision in NDAA FY2012 will allow for the reinstatement of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” essentially making waterboarding and forms of psychological torture a very possible reality for anyone America deems to be a threat, including its own citizens who, prior to the ruling, had the US Constitution on their side.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/13/cities-under-siege-stephen-graham
im gonna buy this. been reading about drones being used for domestic surveillance/law enforcment for a while now.
i got it now.
scary thing about drones and robocops is that they cant turn against the rulers. they cant take the peoples side. thats a terminator future.