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Edited on Mon Mar-24-08 09:27 PM by defendandprotect
began to go thru her book again ---
I noticed that she expresses the opinion that the people who have a vested interest in a less open society are regrouping - but she stresses that their funds are just as massive as before regrouping so next time there well may be a permanent majority -- She notes that we have little time to repeal the laws and roll back the forces.
Naomi also cites how well fascists are able to form public opinion. IMO, this is a large subject re propaganda and well studied and restudied by the right. It took a hell of a long time for anyone writing about our situation to mention right-wing propaganda --- I think Mark Justin Miller was the first. Propaganda is historical; the Vatican being champions at it in times of recent memory --- Inquisition, etal.
She also points out that this is the first open-ended war --- McCain talks about 100 years; Condi Rice says, "a generational commitment." Gore Vidal has always talked about "perpetual war" as being what they are after. And Naomi notes that we are oficially embracing TORTURE.
Coming back to the money . . . Naomi tries to impress upon us the vast amounts of money that has begun to flow from a condition of uninterrupted domestic surveillance and open-ended foreign hostilities.
I would add to that . . . all while the taxpayer's dollar has been devalued to half of the Euro just since Bush became president!
As I said, I haven't gotten thru all of her book as yet --- However, we can all imagine freedom and I think the Founders wrote something self-evident to all of us --- HOWEVER, they also made great compromises with patriarchy, with elitism -- with those who held slaves, with inequality for females and native Americans, etal. Certainly the compromise with slavery set us up for the Civil War --- So, I don't quite agree with Naomi on all the magic of the Founders that she sees.
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