Greetings good citizen,
The rubric of ‘gradualism’ crept into public awareness during the (largely fabricated) ‘Red Scare’.
The analogy of a frog in a pot of water was used to exemplify how ‘gradualism’ worked (by the time you realized you were being boiled alive it was too late.)
We’d go about our lives and the insidious ‘commies’ would be infiltrating American Institutions and ‘contaminating’ them with their evil socialist poison!
(Which is what capitalists call every social ‘protection’ you have that they are required to fund.)
At the end of the day Bubba, it’s not their money but yours! But they still ‘view’ your social welfare as money THEY could have kept.
Who gives a fig what happens to you when you stop working? (Or at least that’s how the typical capitalist thinks.)
How disturbing is it that you can easily exchange the word capitalist for the word Republican? Even more disturbing is how the label Republican is now synonymous with the notorious >One Percent!
Now let’s bring the two concepts home
How evil is it that you are being denied your RIGHT to ‘due process’ while the (hijacked rogue) government reclaims the right to torture its ‘enemies’ with impunity?
Even more disturbing is how even you might come to find yourself on the ‘enemies list’.
The question creeping through the back of everybody’s mind these days is whether or not, somewhere in their murky past, they may have (unknowingly) befriended a current Enemy of the State…and how that accident of fate has made YOU a ‘Person of Interest’.
Put two and two together. Let’s suppose this ‘old acquaintance’ that you haven’t laid eyes on IN DECADES is blamed for some act of civil disobedience. For the sake of argument let’s say this act resulted in the loss of a multi-million dollar facility and some first responders were injured will doing their job…but nobody died.
Guess who becomes a lightening rod if they can’t find a more recent ‘acquaintance’ of the suspect?
Let’s make it even more interesting…let’s suppose you never said a word to this geek, the only thing you’re guilty of is being a member of the same high school class as he/she was.
They’re not about to water board you…unless the suspect was one of those people you stayed in touch with after leaving school.
Now it gets more ‘interesting’…guilt or innocence is irrelevant, so is the, er, ‘intensity’ with which they pursue clues to the suspects whereabouts.
You get to take a ride on the government’s new toy whether you know anything of not!
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Your lawyer can’t get you out of this because you won’t be allowed to contact him…yes good citizen, in the name of ‘national security’ you’ve lost that right too.
Counsel will be advised he/she will be disbarred if he/she files any action against the torturers…and that should be the end of your search for ‘legal representation’.
Welcome to the NEW U.S.A. good citizen, (if you’re smart you’ll find the nearest exit before you’re trapped here and can’t escape!)
THIS is what those commie hating, capitalism loving patriots were trying to create to block the insidious spread of ‘socialism’.
Sort of puts the >One Percent thing in a whole new light, doesn’t it?
Bad enough they made you struggle through seven years of college and didn’t even offer you a job. Now you’re supposed to be ‘happy’ they’re not water-boarding you!
Yessiree Bob, the good ol’ U.S.A. has become precisely what the Native Americans called it long ago, “The land of broken promises.”
With that chilling thought in mind good citizen, I’d be extremely careful about who you cross.
The point of a gun is the only ‘law’ these psychos understand.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
The rubric of ‘gradualism’ crept into public awareness during the (largely fabricated) ‘Red Scare’.
The analogy of a frog in a pot of water was used to exemplify how ‘gradualism’ worked (by the time you realized you were being boiled alive it was too late.)
We’d go about our lives and the insidious ‘commies’ would be infiltrating American Institutions and ‘contaminating’ them with their evil socialist poison!
(Which is what capitalists call every social ‘protection’ you have that they are required to fund.)
At the end of the day Bubba, it’s not their money but yours! But they still ‘view’ your social welfare as money THEY could have kept.
Who gives a fig what happens to you when you stop working? (Or at least that’s how the typical capitalist thinks.)
How disturbing is it that you can easily exchange the word capitalist for the word Republican? Even more disturbing is how the label Republican is now synonymous with the notorious >One Percent!
Now let’s bring the two concepts home
Water Torture, as American as Apple Pie
What does it mean when torture, already the definition of “cruel,” becomes usual?
February 24, 2013 |
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Try to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep some air in your lungs and fight that growing feeling of suffocation. Try not to think about dying, because there’s nothing you can do about it, because you’re tied down, because someone is pouring that water over your face, forcing it into you, drowning you slowly and deliberately. You’re helpless. You’re in agony.
In short, you’re a victim of “water torture.” Or the “water cure.” Or the “water rag.” Or the “water treatment.” Or “ tormenta de toca.” Or any of the other nicknames given to the particular form of brutality that today goes by the relatively innocuous term “waterboarding.”
How evil is it that you are being denied your RIGHT to ‘due process’ while the (hijacked rogue) government reclaims the right to torture its ‘enemies’ with impunity?
Even more disturbing is how even you might come to find yourself on the ‘enemies list’.
The question creeping through the back of everybody’s mind these days is whether or not, somewhere in their murky past, they may have (unknowingly) befriended a current Enemy of the State…and how that accident of fate has made YOU a ‘Person of Interest’.
Put two and two together. Let’s suppose this ‘old acquaintance’ that you haven’t laid eyes on IN DECADES is blamed for some act of civil disobedience. For the sake of argument let’s say this act resulted in the loss of a multi-million dollar facility and some first responders were injured will doing their job…but nobody died.
Guess who becomes a lightening rod if they can’t find a more recent ‘acquaintance’ of the suspect?
Let’s make it even more interesting…let’s suppose you never said a word to this geek, the only thing you’re guilty of is being a member of the same high school class as he/she was.
They’re not about to water board you…unless the suspect was one of those people you stayed in touch with after leaving school.
Now it gets more ‘interesting’…guilt or innocence is irrelevant, so is the, er, ‘intensity’ with which they pursue clues to the suspects whereabouts.
You get to take a ride on the government’s new toy whether you know anything of not!
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Your lawyer can’t get you out of this because you won’t be allowed to contact him…yes good citizen, in the name of ‘national security’ you’ve lost that right too.
Counsel will be advised he/she will be disbarred if he/she files any action against the torturers…and that should be the end of your search for ‘legal representation’.
Welcome to the NEW U.S.A. good citizen, (if you’re smart you’ll find the nearest exit before you’re trapped here and can’t escape!)
THIS is what those commie hating, capitalism loving patriots were trying to create to block the insidious spread of ‘socialism’.
Sort of puts the >One Percent thing in a whole new light, doesn’t it?
Bad enough they made you struggle through seven years of college and didn’t even offer you a job. Now you’re supposed to be ‘happy’ they’re not water-boarding you!
Yessiree Bob, the good ol’ U.S.A. has become precisely what the Native Americans called it long ago, “The land of broken promises.”
With that chilling thought in mind good citizen, I’d be extremely careful about who you cross.
The point of a gun is the only ‘law’ these psychos understand.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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