Monday, January 6, 2014

The US war on dissenters

Here is a good (although rather dry) analysis by Marcy Wheeler of how the US government spies on dissenters while claiming it is protecting us from "terrorism":

http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/01/06/did-the-hospital-confrontation-shut-down-an-illegal-dragnet-against-iraq-war-critics/


Yes, they hate our freedoms.


They (the US government and ruling class) hate our (the US people's) freedoms.


They (the US government and ruling class) want to put us (the US people) in our place, which happens to be the same place in which they originally put the following "classes" of people:


US Constitution, Article I, Section 2

3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

At this point, we would be fortunate to be "three fifths" of a "one percenter". Most of us are not even that well off:



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