My Life Is Total Shit

Basically my life is shit. The more I sit here and contemplate it the more apparent it becomes. I'm surrounded by retards, buts its very clear that the powers that be could do something if they felt fit, but basically unless it involves linking me up with shit people they wont do it. For example, I have a huge MySpace and several web sites which basically are me trying to meet people, and in 5 years I have got fuck all. Thats because the evil governemtn are fucking my internet up. Theres plenty of people that would love to meet me, but i'm treated like a radioactive substance and no ones allowed near me. As such I sit here alone day after day after fucking day. Its like i'm a special technology and unless they can have me no one can, and they'd rather destroy me than let me free.

Its easy to spot the government sponsored initiatives, they can do so much, but they WONT make anything good happen.

I would rather DIE than bow to their company.

I swear I am so desperate to leave this country.

Murder Implements

Just another comment on old people. Amongst many, including indians, blacks, retards and ugly people, old people are a classic weapon of an evil governemtn. Essentially they bring you down. They stop you wanting to try, they depress you. For example, I was gearing up to go out which is quite hard, and the old cunt next door made his prescence felt as he usually does at critical stages (coincidence? I dont think so) and it just left me feeling that I didn't want to go out.

I also remember another time, I had booked a ticket to go to america and the date I had arranged to see had dropped out and I was trying to decide wether to go or not and see someone else. The flight left at 6am so I was planning to stay up all night. At 2am I went to the post office, its January so its fucking cold, but he was up, and his door was wide open. It really fucked up my mental process. Coincidence? I dont think so. Its these points that when you put them together provide the outline of the evil government. I know alot of you will thin k im a cunt for saying these things, especially about the old, but thats only because you either dont understand or are being contrary.

Another more general example is when I was sailing at an open meeting, a competition. The old people are generally crap because they're old, but they still sail right into your path. There was this one time when this old cunt would sail straight across me on every tack, no matter what I did. Like god himself was providing him with the exact wind needed to cut me up. He even once tacked across me and then almost sailed backwards right into me. They only way I could get oput of his way was to turn sharply and in doing so I actiually cap sized. Essentially he was fucking my game up making it impossible for the main players that he was essentially defending.

Currently at my gym there are these old people, and they make me feel ill. They spend ours in the gym in their dressing gowns sitting in the sauna and thew jacuzzi, and it makes me feel ill. Personally I dont think that old people should be allowed near healthy people.

I say that carefully as I have alot of friends that are old that I value. Its not the being old thats the problem, its the being a sack of shit retards AND being old. The thing is, they know what they're doing. They copy you. For example, no matter where I am they will always stand right in front of me and do their excercises. Dont get me wrong. Where I sail there are old people and they are healthy, and its a ppleasure to compete against them and they are not eyesores, but these old people, theses evil weapons are people that are intent on bringing other people down. Personally I feel that if you know you have aids or any such dangerous disease you should fuck off and not infect healthy people. But noooo, these old caunts have a mission, and thats to spread their disease to as many people as possible.

Bogus News

Bogus News

I'd like to say something about the news. Essentially its all bogus. Whilst most of the events are probably true they are all engineered to suit the governments purpose. For example, if there were 10 items of news they would only report on 5 which would mean that 5 items would be ignored.

This means that they can shape the news to manage the collective subconcious. For example, all the reporting on peadophiles. This is essentially a governement ploy to join government sychophants together against a common enemy whilst pursueing the oppression and persecution of those ostrisised by the government and its henchmen, the employers and the landlords etc.

Any single man can then be accused of being a peodophile, what ever they do.

There are two points here. It is fact that in the 1920's smoking was very taboo and the tobacco companies wanted to encourage smoking amongst women so they engineered a scenario in America where loads of women started smoking openly in high society. This was reported by the media in a light that made it look like women were rebelling and the result was that thousands of women started smoking. The point is that the media was utilised to control the mass. Ever since the government has been doing that also.

The second point is the the structure of the Nazi party was to unify the population by joining them in a common hatred against an outside body, the jew. The Americans did it with the Communists. People were truly scared of communists. Today they are doing it with terrorism and peopdophiles.

The news is used to focus on a known enemy, it never focusses on evil employers, evil corporates or evil land owners. The true enemy.

In short, you should not read the news. I know it sounds odd, but its true. We live in an evil country that is being managed by the media. The German people fell for it and us, the English are falling for it now.

I'll say more later.

Alone

I think the biggest problem is the being alone. Its not lonlyness, its being able to defend yourself. Because being alone means your really suseptable to shit people. Its like people like me are under lock and key, and that opportunity never happens. That is opportunity with decent people. Theres plenty of shit opportunity. Anyway, i've had another shitty day and all I have is new memory implants of shitty people.

Its like i'm under lock and key, like the female side of me, or the person that I should be with. She is under a corporate lock and key. The prison being that she is made 'comfortable', and theres no reason to lower to my level, someone with no friends. The corporates all make it easy for her to visit them at the weekend like they were good freinds in their nice house. Life with me would be unbearable in comparison. Anyway, my point is that they are similarly controlling my opportunity. Everywhere I go I am constantly bombarded by shit people which stresses me out. Which means you cant act normally. But its a double whammy because I have no defence.

Today I have come home with the following shit memories:

Tramps in the street
Indians (I hate them)
Criminals (people that talk like shit in the pub)
Happy families (OMG They need so much space dont they and talk such shit.)
Low Life neibhours
Happy Couples
Ugly fat girls

To name but a few. And all I get to do is sit at home (for 15 years and forever) stewing on it.

The conclusion is that this is not a life. This is a living death. The sun is out and i'm alone and surrounded by retards, AGAIN, STILL, AS USUAL.

No one is going to call me. There will be no interuption to this nightmare.

Surrounded By Shit People

A note on shit people. I am constantly surrounded by shit people. I believe this is a deliberate attempt to destroy me. (I know, I sound like a freak) Everywhere I go there are shit people. I call them disease bearers. When I moved here 7 years ago there were normal people living nearby, however, true to form, as they have done everywhere else they moved all those people out and replaced them with low lifes.

More, every corner I take there are shit people. Every route I take has beggers on it. These pestilent ridden people will often ask me 'for some change so they and they're girlfriend can get into the shelter'. Obviously this is custom written stuff by an evil government aimed at demoralising my. After all, even the beggers have girlfriends. But more than that, there are indian people everywhere I go. More about them later. Just for the record however, the term WOG in the dictionery officially means virus or pestilence and possibly mental pestilence. Which is what they are. However they only dammage weak people like me, or rather, weak single people that have no voice to defend themselves with.

Anyway, everywhere I go, instantly shit people follow. I joined a gym and whilst I know quality people go, they are never there when I am, instead its always old people or retarded low lifes or indians or russians. Its not just a coincidence, its managed.

I say this in this post not so much to make a point, but to set the scene as I will regularly post about the latest encounter with shit people and how the corporates and the government are supporting them and using them as porns to attack free thinkers like myself.

As a note, right now, the retard to the back of me is 'decorating his kitchen', a process he has been doing for over a year now. Periodically 'banging on the wall'. Its little details like that. Also, the use of old people. Old people make young people sick. So they are used as porns. The old person next door to me makes me sick, and he knows it. When I worked he worked, but as soon as I stopped working, so did he. That was so he could sit there and repress me and make me ill. Its a war of attrition. When hes gone I can sense it.

Which brings me on to my concept of the environment. I take that term in its literal sense, ENVIRO meaning about, and MENTAL meaning, the mental state, out mental condition. As such, we all influence our environment, but old poele and sick people and reatards influence it to the detriment. That is why they surround me with shit people, to destroy my environment and my mental well being and cause stress which causes illness and early death. That is why they are evil, because that is what they are doing, trying to kill me. Conversly, the environments they give themselves offer oxygen so they can absorb shit. Oxygen comes in the form of a girlfriends and more iomportantly, family. Without that you are sensitive to shit. That means they can scold you for being mean to old people or wogs or retards, becausae they put up with it and so should you. However, the point is that it has a stronger effect on people like me. That is how they build their walls, in the factories and offices, by strategic placement of shit people.

More on this as time goes by.

MySpace Profile Deleted

Just a note on My MySpace profile. As I have already said, its secret from here because its a nice page to attract girls and not to rant against the evil of England and the internet police.

However, MySpace is fairly critical in my well being in that it is my link to my friends, not that I actually have any. By definition my myspace page is like a stall at a market where i'm trying to sell stuff, ie, me, and even though i'm not doing well, the fact of being there is spiritually uplifting. Important point, because obviously the governemtn and Secret Internet Police dont want that. And so my account gets deleted regularly. However, its not just deleted regulary (about 6-12 months) its deleted at critical moments. For example, the first time it was deleted was 2 days before my birthday and me going on holiday. Anyone who has an insight into how depressing it is to be repressed by invisible government forces will understand how difficult birthdays are for people like me. So not only do they delete me MySpace but they do it before I go on holiday on my Birthday. The reason its damming is because obviously I rely on it to a certain extent. However, thats not the only time they do it. I went on holiday last month, and 3 days before that my account was deleted. Theres no redress in that.

I dont think they have a moral right to do that.

But my main point is that there is in some fashion a concerted effort to synchronise these 'damaging attacks' against me to achieve greater effect which can only signify an organising or controlling force. My MySpace account hase probably been deleted about 6 times in the last 4 years.

The effect of that is that I loose all my friends, as well as freinds that were developing.

Point being that they regularly delete my MySpace account in an organised fashion. More on MySpace and its evil police later.

Secret Internet Police

i'll probably refer to the secret internet police alot.

Today I had another example of it. Basically I have a Myspace that is totally unconnected with this account or any other account and only has girls on it as I want to meet girls, and so I dont talk any of this bullshit there.

However, today I had a friend invite from a template conspiracy theorist, and when I say template I mean probably bogus, probably secret internet police, trying to be my pal. The thing is, theres NO REASON AT ALL why he should have thought I would want to be his friend. It happens all the time. Essentially, the secret internet police are keeping me from meeting real people by keeping all my account 'isolated' from the real world. In 7 years on the internet I have never met a single person.

It is my belief that the secret internet police are out there blocking people like me from interacting with their 'slaves' and 'child bearers'.

That is evil. Its evil because I need the internet like I need water. Further, you come to rely on the internet and live in the expectation that it is as it appears. The desception therefore leads peoplpe into situations they are not aware of, for example, having no friends.

I dont want to go into this too much right now, but its obviously going to be a recurring theme so stay tuned.

Principal Basis

I think the stuff below is key to the reason England if evil.

Fascist America, in 10 easy stepsFrom Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Tuesday April 24, 2007The Guardian
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.


They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.
Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have.
It is my argument that, beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be willing to think the unthinkable - as the author and political journalist Joe Conason, has put it, that it can happen here. And that we are further along than we realise.
Conason eloquently warned of the danger of American authoritarianism. I am arguing that we need also to look at the lessons of European and other kinds of fascism to understand the potential seriousness of the events we see unfolding in the US.
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation". There have been other times of crisis in which the US accepted limits on civil liberties, such as during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law, and the second world war, when thousands of Japanese-American citizens were interned. But this situation, as Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda notes, is unprecedented: all our other wars had an endpoint, so the pendulum was able to swing back toward freedom; this war is defined as open-ended in time and without national boundaries in space - the globe itself is the battlefield. "This time," Fein says, "there will be no defined end."
Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick. It can, like Hitler's invocation of a communist threat to the nation's security, be based on actual events (one Wisconsin academic has faced calls for his dismissal because he noted, among other things, that the alleged communist arson, the Reichstag fire of February 1933, was swiftly followed in Nazi Germany by passage of the Enabling Act, which replaced constitutional law with an open-ended state of emergency). Or the terrifying threat can be based, like the National Socialist evocation of the "global conspiracy of world Jewry", on myth.
It is not that global Islamist terrorism is not a severe danger; of course it is. I am arguing rather that the language used to convey the nature of the threat is different in a country such as Spain - which has also suffered violent terrorist attacks - than it is in America. Spanish citizens know that they face a grave security threat; what we as American citizens believe is that we are potentially threatened with the end of civilisation as we know it. Of course, this makes us more willing to accept restrictions on our freedoms.
2. Create a gulag
Once you have got everyone scared, the next step is to create a prison system outside the rule of law (as Bush put it, he wanted the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to be situated in legal "outer space") - where torture takes place.
At first, the people who are sent there are seen by citizens as outsiders: troublemakers, spies, "enemies of the people" or "criminals". Initially, citizens tend to support the secret prison system; it makes them feel safer and they do not identify with the prisoners. But soon enough, civil society leaders - opposition members, labour activists, clergy and journalists - are arrested and sent there as well.
This process took place in fascist shifts or anti-democracy crackdowns ranging from Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s to the Latin American coups of the 1970s and beyond. It is standard practice for closing down an open society or crushing a pro-democracy uprising.
With its jails in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, of course, Guantánamo in Cuba, where detainees are abused, and kept indefinitely without trial and without access to the due process of the law, America certainly has its gulag now. Bush and his allies in Congress recently announced they would issue no information about the secret CIA "black site" prisons throughout the world, which are used to incarcerate people who have been seized off the street.
Gulags in history tend to metastasise, becoming ever larger and more secretive, ever more deadly and formalised. We know from first-hand accounts, photographs, videos and government documents that people, innocent and guilty, have been tortured in the US-run prisons we are aware of and those we can't investigate adequately.
But Americans still assume this system and detainee abuses involve only scary brown people with whom they don't generally identify. It was brave of the conservative pundit William Safire to quote the anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller, who had been seized as a political prisoner: "First they came for the Jews." Most Americans don't understand yet that the destruction of the rule of law at Guantánamo set a dangerous precedent for them, too.
By the way, the establishment of military tribunals that deny prisoners due process tends to come early on in a fascist shift. Mussolini and Stalin set up such tribunals. On April 24 1934, the Nazis, too, set up the People's Court, which also bypassed the judicial system: prisoners were held indefinitely, often in isolation, and tortured, without being charged with offences, and were subjected to show trials. Eventually, the Special Courts became a parallel system that put pressure on the regular courts to abandon the rule of law in favour of Nazi ideology when making decisions.
3. Develop a thug caste
When leaders who seek what I call a "fascist shift" want to close down an open society, they send paramilitary groups of scary young men out to terrorise citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the Italian countryside beating up communists; the Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout Germany. This paramilitary force is especially important in a democracy: you need citizens to fear thug violence and so you need thugs who are free from prosecution.
The years following 9/11 have proved a bonanza for America's security contractors, with the Bush administration outsourcing areas of work that traditionally fell to the US military. In the process, contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been issued for security work by mercenaries at home and abroad. In Iraq, some of these contract operatives have been accused of involvement in torturing prisoners, harassing journalists and firing on Iraqi civilians. Under Order 17, issued to regulate contractors in Iraq by the one-time US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, these contractors are immune from prosecution
Yes, but that is in Iraq, you could argue; however, after Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Homeland Security hired and deployed hundreds of armed private security guards in New Orleans. The investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill interviewed one unnamed guard who reported having fired on unarmed civilians in the city. It was a natural disaster that underlay that episode - but the administration's endless war on terror means ongoing scope for what are in effect privately contracted armies to take on crisis and emergency management at home in US cities.
Thugs in America? Groups of angry young Republican men, dressed in identical shirts and trousers, menaced poll workers counting the votes in Florida in 2000. If you are reading history, you can imagine that there can be a need for "public order" on the next election day. Say there are protests, or a threat, on the day of an election; history would not rule out the presence of a private security firm at a polling station "to restore public order".
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.
In 2005 and 2006, when James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wrote in the New York Times about a secret state programme to wiretap citizens' phones, read their emails and follow international financial transactions, it became clear to ordinary Americans that they, too, could be under state scrutiny.
In closed societies, this surveillance is cast as being about "national security"; the true function is to keep citizens docile and inhibit their activism and dissent.
5. Harass citizens' groups
The fifth thing you do is related to step four - you infiltrate and harass citizens' groups. It can be trivial: a church in Pasadena, whose minister preached that Jesus was in favour of peace, found itself being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, while churches that got Republicans out to vote, which is equally illegal under US tax law, have been left alone.
Other harassment is more serious: the American Civil Liberties Union reports that thousands of ordinary American anti-war, environmental and other groups have been infiltrated by agents: a secret Pentagon database includes more than four dozen peaceful anti-war meetings, rallies or marches by American citizens in its category of 1,500 "suspicious incidents". The equally secret Counterintelligence Field Activity (Cifa) agency of the Department of Defense has been gathering information about domestic organisations engaged in peaceful political activities: Cifa is supposed to track "potential terrorist threats" as it watches ordinary US citizen activists. A little-noticed new law has redefined activism such as animal rights protests as "terrorism". So the definition of "terrorist" slowly expands to include the opposition.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
This scares people. It is a kind of cat-and-mouse game. Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the investigative reporters who wrote China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, describe pro-democracy activists in China, such as Wei Jingsheng, being arrested and released many times. In a closing or closed society there is a "list" of dissidents and opposition leaders: you are targeted in this way once you are on the list, and it is hard to get off the list.
In 2004, America's Transportation Security Administration confirmed that it had a list of passengers who were targeted for security searches or worse if they tried to fly. People who have found themselves on the list? Two middle-aged women peace activists in San Francisco; liberal Senator Edward Kennedy; a member of Venezuela's government - after Venezuela's president had criticised Bush; and thousands of ordinary US citizens.
Professor Walter F Murphy is emeritus of Princeton University; he is one of the foremost constitutional scholars in the nation and author of the classic Constitutional Democracy. Murphy is also a decorated former marine, and he is not even especially politically liberal. But on March 1 this year, he was denied a boarding pass at Newark, "because I was on the Terrorist Watch list".
"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.
"I explained," said Murphy, "that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution."
"That'll do it," the man said.
Anti-war marcher? Potential terrorist. Support the constitution? Potential terrorist. History shows that the categories of "enemy of the people" tend to expand ever deeper into civil life.
James Yee, a US citizen, was the Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo who was accused of mishandling classified documents. He was harassed by the US military before the charges against him were dropped. Yee has been detained and released several times. He is still of interest.
Brandon Mayfield, a US citizen and lawyer in Oregon, was mistakenly identified as a possible terrorist. His house was secretly broken into and his computer seized. Though he is innocent of the accusation against him, he is still on the list.
It is a standard practice of fascist societies that once you are on the list, you can't get off.
7. Target key individuals
Threaten civil servants, artists and academics with job loss if they don't toe the line. Mussolini went after the rectors of state universities who did not conform to the fascist line; so did Joseph Goebbels, who purged academics who were not pro-Nazi; so did Chile's Augusto Pinochet; so does the Chinese communist Politburo in punishing pro-democracy students and professors.
Academe is a tinderbox of activism, so those seeking a fascist shift punish academics and students with professional loss if they do not "coordinate", in Goebbels' term, ideologically. Since civil servants are the sector of society most vulnerable to being fired by a given regime, they are also a group that fascists typically "coordinate" early on: the Reich Law for the Re-establishment of a Professional Civil Service was passed on April 7 1933.
Bush supporters in state legislatures in several states put pressure on regents at state universities to penalise or fire academics who have been critical of the administration. As for civil servants, the Bush administration has derailed the career of one military lawyer who spoke up for fair trials for detainees, while an administration official publicly intimidated the law firms that represent detainees pro bono by threatening to call for their major corporate clients to boycott them.
Elsewhere, a CIA contract worker who said in a closed blog that "waterboarding is torture" was stripped of the security clearance she needed in order to do her job.
Most recently, the administration purged eight US attorneys for what looks like insufficient political loyalty. When Goebbels purged the civil service in April 1933, attorneys were "coordinated" too, a step that eased the way of the increasingly brutal laws to follow.
8. Control the press
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the 30s, East Germany in the 50s, Czechoslovakia in the 60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the 70s, China in the 80s and 90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. They threaten and harass them in more open societies that they are seeking to close, and they arrest them and worse in societies that have been closed already.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says arrests of US journalists are at an all-time high: Josh Wolf (no relation), a blogger in San Francisco, has been put in jail for a year for refusing to turn over video of an anti-war demonstration; Homeland Security brought a criminal complaint against reporter Greg Palast, claiming he threatened "critical infrastructure" when he and a TV producer were filming victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. Palast had written a bestseller critical of the Bush administration.
Other reporters and writers have been punished in other ways. Joseph C Wilson accused Bush, in a New York Times op-ed, of leading the country to war on the basis of a false charge that Saddam Hussein had acquired yellowcake uranium in Niger. His wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as a CIA spy - a form of retaliation that ended her career.
Prosecution and job loss are nothing, though, compared with how the US is treating journalists seeking to cover the conflict in Iraq in an unbiased way. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented multiple accounts of the US military in Iraq firing upon or threatening to fire upon unembedded (meaning independent) reporters and camera operators from organisations ranging from al-Jazeera to the BBC. While westerners may question the accounts by al-Jazeera, they should pay attention to the accounts of reporters such as the BBC's Kate Adie. In some cases reporters have been wounded or killed, including ITN's Terry Lloyd in 2003. Both CBS and the Associated Press in Iraq had staff members seized by the US military and taken to violent prisons; the news organisations were unable to see the evidence against their staffers.
Over time in closing societies, real news is supplanted by fake news and false documents. Pinochet showed Chilean citizens falsified documents to back up his claim that terrorists had been about to attack the nation. The yellowcake charge, too, was based on forged papers.
You won't have a shutdown of news in modern America - it is not possible. But you can have, as Frank Rich and Sidney Blumenthal have pointed out, a steady stream of lies polluting the news well. What you already have is a White House directing a stream of false information that is so relentless that it is increasingly hard to sort out truth from untruth. In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
9. Dissent equals treason
Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.
Conason is right to note how serious a threat that attack represented. It is also important to recall that the 1938 Moscow show trial accused the editor of Izvestia, Nikolai Bukharin, of treason; Bukharin was, in fact, executed. And it is important to remind Americans that when the 1917 Espionage Act was last widely invoked, during the infamous 1919 Palmer Raids, leftist activists were arrested without warrants in sweeping roundups, kept in jail for up to five months, and "beaten, starved, suffocated, tortured and threatened with death", according to the historian Myra MacPherson. After that, dissent was muted in America for a decade.
In Stalin's Soviet Union, dissidents were "enemies of the people". National Socialists called those who supported Weimar democracy "November traitors".
And here is where the circle closes: most Americans do not realise that since September of last year - when Congress wrongly, foolishly, passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - the president has the power to call any US citizen an "enemy combatant". He has the power to define what "enemy combatant" means. The president can also delegate to anyone he chooses in the executive branch the right to define "enemy combatant" any way he or she wants and then seize Americans accordingly.
Even if you or I are American citizens, even if we turn out to be completely innocent of what he has accused us of doing, he has the power to have us seized as we are changing planes at Newark tomorrow, or have us taken with a knock on the door; ship you or me to a navy brig; and keep you or me in isolation, possibly for months, while awaiting trial. (Prolonged isolation, as psychiatrists know, triggers psychosis in otherwise mentally healthy prisoners. That is why Stalin's gulag had an isolation cell, like Guantánamo's, in every satellite prison. Camp 6, the newest, most brutal facility at Guantánamo, is all isolation cells.)
We US citizens will get a trial eventually - for now. But legal rights activists at the Center for Constitutional Rights say that the Bush administration is trying increasingly aggressively to find ways to get around giving even US citizens fair trials. "Enemy combatant" is a status offence - it is not even something you have to have done. "We have absolutely moved over into a preventive detention model - you look like you could do something bad, you might do something bad, so we're going to hold you," says a spokeswoman of the CCR.
Most Americans surely do not get this yet. No wonder: it is hard to believe, even though it is true. In every closing society, at a certain point there are some high-profile arrests - usually of opposition leaders, clergy and journalists. Then everything goes quiet. After those arrests, there are still newspapers, courts, TV and radio, and the facades of a civil society. There just isn't real dissent. There just isn't freedom. If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now.
10. Suspend the rule of law
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency - which the president now has enhanced powers to declare - he can send Michigan's militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state's governor and its citizens.
Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who fathered Anna Nicole's baby, the New York Times editorialised about this shift: "A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night ... Beyond actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any 'other condition'."
Critics see this as a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act - which was meant to restrain the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement. The Democratic senator Patrick Leahy says the bill encourages a president to declare federal martial law. It also violates the very reason the founders set up our system of government as they did: having seen citizens bullied by a monarch's soldiers, the founders were terrified of exactly this kind of concentration of militias' power over American people in the hands of an oppressive executive or faction.
Of course, the United States is not vulnerable to the violent, total closing-down of the system that followed Mussolini's march on Rome or Hitler's roundup of political prisoners. Our democratic habits are too resilient, and our military and judiciary too independent, for any kind of scenario like that.
Rather, as other critics are noting, our experiment in democracy could be closed down by a process of erosion.
It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in 1922; people were shopping and going to the movies in Berlin in 1931. Early on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere - while someone is being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: "dogs go on with their doggy life ... How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the disaster."
As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" - a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president - without US citizens realising it yet - the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.
That means a hollowness has been expanding under the foundation of all these still- free-looking institutions - and this foundation can give way under certain kinds of pressure. To prevent such an outcome, we have to think about the "what ifs".
What if, in a year and a half, there is another attack - say, God forbid, a dirty bomb? The executive can declare a state of emergency. History shows that any leader, of any party, will be tempted to maintain emergency powers after the crisis has passed. With the gutting of traditional checks and balances, we are no less endangered by a President Hillary than by a President Giuliani - because any executive will be tempted to enforce his or her will through edict rather than the arduous, uncertain process of democratic negotiation and compromise.
What if the publisher of a major US newspaper were charged with treason or espionage, as a rightwing effort seemed to threaten Keller with last year? What if he or she got 10 years in jail? What would the newspapers look like the next day? Judging from history, they would not cease publishing; but they would suddenly be very polite.
Right now, only a handful of patriots are trying to hold back the tide of tyranny for the rest of us - staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who faced death threats for representing the detainees yet persisted all the way to the Supreme Court; activists at the American Civil Liberties Union; and prominent conservatives trying to roll back the corrosive new laws, under the banner of a new group called the American Freedom Agenda. This small, disparate collection of people needs everybody's help, including that of Europeans and others internationally who are willing to put pressure on the administration because they can see what a US unrestrained by real democracy at home can mean for the rest of the world.
We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this is the way it is now.
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny," wrote James Madison. We still have the choice to stop going down this road; we can stand our ground and fight for our nation, and take up the banner the founders asked us to carry.
· Naomi Wolf's The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot will be published by Chelsea Green in September

Not That I Disagree With Beating Children

Just seems appropriate for my new blog on Evil England

First Post

This whole blog is for me to vent about what I hate in the world, so dont expect anything nice. I'm tired of seeing things and thinking, WTF, but I cant put it on my MySpace or elswhere as its not appropriate.

First thing is this, I was reading about drug busts across the US border where they embedded 350kg of grass in these bricks, left. So I read further about how it was the third big bust in 8 days and how tough the customs gaurds are. then it went on to say this:

CBP officers working at the dedicated commuter lane at the Ysleta crossing on Tuesday stopped two attempts to smuggle prohibited agricultural items into the
U.S. from Mexico. A 47-year-old female was fined $500 and had her privileges revoked after CBP officers discovered three undeclared peaches in her car. A short time later CBP officers discovered an undeclared apple in a vehicle driven by a 33-year-old female. She was fined $500 and her privileges were also revoked.

Just seemed like an ideal first post really. I think it speaks for itself.

I also I found a 500 Cedis coin from Ghana today which interested me because it had the words FREEDOM AND JUSTICE on the coin and I wondered if it really existed and wether it was better than England because I dont think it exists in England. It was like a sign from God to start this blog. I said 'like' a sign, because, like you, I know that god doesn't exist.