On the recent "election"
Here is an excerpt from a Lew Rockwell article by Dave Trotter that expresses exactly what I feel about the current political situation in the American Empire:
Will This Democrat Majority Turn the Tide of History? Why Would It?..on Election Day Americans were demanding an end to the quagmire in Iraq, but Americans were also repudiating everything else about the direction that Bush and the neocons have taken us these last few years – the domestic surveillance, the torture, the Patriot Act, the efforts to label dissenters "unlawful combatants," and so on.
Whether the election results were legitimate or manufactured (and that question will always remain as long as electronic voting machines are used), there’s only one way to interpret such a stark course correction: a rejection of Bush’s police state by someone.
If the Democrats do anything short of repealing the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, it will be a betrayal. If they don’t conduct new investigations into 9/11 and the alleged intelligence "failures" leading to the Iraq war, and if they don’t hold the neocons accountable for all the death and diminishment that they’ve caused, they will prove, once again, how they are effectively no different than the Republicans.
Instead, the Democrats will demonstrate another completely unsurprising natural law: that the establishment protects its own. (
Full story here)
See also the related story by Paul Craig Roberts
Are Democrats Turning a Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Well, of course they are. :-(