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By Dan Hagen
The ancient Chinese had a curse
that they had cleverly disguised as a blessing. It was, ”May you live in
interesting times.”
When 9-11 happened a dozen years
ago, I wrote a newspaper column warning that this was precisely the kind of
event that leaves societies vulnerable to fascism.
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| "Cassandra Spoke" by Kelly Naylor |
Meanwhile, the economically browbeaten citizens have remained
largely supine, bovine and silent, waiting for the tide of history to wash them out to sea.
Yes, I confess, I always wanted to
be a mythic figure. But playing the role of Cassandra is no fun at all.
And who's a "terrorist?" Why, anybody at all, anybody who gets in the way. http://www.progressivepress.net/detained-for-silence-the-return-of-mccarthyism/
ReplyDelete“Imagine a single issue that is so heavy, it bends our ideological steel rod into a perfect circle that unites both sides. Conservatives and liberals perfectly aligned; dogs and cats living together. Such is the weight of Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, a provision so potentially destructive to our democracy that it has galvanized both liberal and conservative activists alike. Known as the indefinite detention provision, it deals with the circumstances under which the government has authority to detain persons deemed to be supportive of terrorism.”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.longislandpress.com/2013/03/01/ndaa-indefinite-detention-civil-liberties/