tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730738.post8613296508231687914..comments2023-10-23T13:57:46.095-04:00Comments on Mnemosyne's Memes: RHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18132797421986659081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730738.post-34690525380193783312007-10-11T20:32:00.000-04:002007-10-11T20:32:00.000-04:00Just an fyi - Naomi Wolf will be discussing in per...Just an fyi - Naomi Wolf will be discussing in person THE END OF AMERICA: LETTER OF WARNING TO A YOUNG PATRIOT at the Harvard Coop (1400 Mass Ave) on Thursday, October 18, 7 pm, free! -- TLSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31730738.post-24736297038947380652007-10-09T08:54:00.000-04:002007-10-09T08:54:00.000-04:00Naomi Wolf’s essay is more than sobering. It’s chi...Naomi Wolf’s essay is more than sobering. It’s chilling and, of course, it’s right. But just as weathermen and women on American tv simply cannot bring themselves to utter the phrase “global warming,” news anchors on all stations cannot bring themselves to use the word “mercenary,” with regard to Blackwater. But that is what agents of Blackwater are: mercenaries supported with tax-payer money, but without tax-payer consent. Our democracy is sick, and many people—cowed, blind, fearful, incredulous—cannot be brought around to see it. Everything and anything can be done in the name of “Homeland Security,” a phrase that chills the blood as well. “Homeland” is a word that was coined during the Bush administration by Republican hacks (before that, it was “National Security”, period), and it is directly related to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. It is no different, connotationally, from “Father land,” though skillfully (or not so skillfully) disguised to hide any intimations of the authoritarianism contained in the word “Father.” King George III hired Hessians, those German thugs the colonists feared above all others for their careless, insensitive brutality. Our George, that benign Christian father, hires Blackwater, for the same reason: their careless, insensitive brutality. It’s another step, along with domestic spying and suspension of habeus corpus—among other things—to destroy our democracy and have the paramilitary power to enforce the destruction and make sure the country remains under control. How many years before your blog, my comments here, and Naomi Wolf’s book get us all rounded up and tossed into jail? I don’t know, but I know it’s possible. More possible every day. What key words in this text will alarm monitors at the CIA and other U. S. intelligence agencies already dragging the internet daily for signs of “terrorism” and suspicious domestic dissent? But, of course, I have nothing to fear because I have done nothing wrong but exercise my right to free speech. The Constitution will protect me. Won’t it?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11373150701972490522noreply@blogger.com