Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Philip Slater: Why America's First Major Terrorist Attack is Forgotten, and what it Shows us

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"Americans need to wake up to the fact that right-wing Republicans don't believe in democracy and never have. They have always admired military dictatorships and seem to be working hard to set up the equivalent here in the United States. Their goal is to create an authoritarian government, with control of the media and the judiciary; to weaken all restraints on executive power and eliminate democratic freedoms; to undermine the public education system through fiscal starvation and rote learning, so that the poor will learn only enough to follow orders; and to create the kind of economic inequality so many Third World countries enjoy--by filling the pockets of a tiny group of extremely rich individuals and impoverishing the rest, thereby providing a mass of cheap labor. This policy began under Ronald Reagan and has made huge leaps under the Bush regime. We don't have too much further to go to achieve this right-wing 'ideal'."

Pretty much says it all doesn't it boys and girls?

3 comments:

The Fool said...

This is not just a "right-wing ideal." Corporate involvement- the interests of the rich - is extreme in both parties. This ideology pervails whenever representatives stoop to being puppets of lobbyists' gratuities. As seems so often the case across the board....

Mike of the North said...

FOOL! You are absolutely correct in stating that the elite in both parties wish the assault against the rights and dignity of the people to continue. I have to agree with the author though that the stooges of the right wing actually like the thought of a military industrial dictatorship, while the stooges of the left think that their "leaders" will somehow protect them from that fate. It is apparent to few too many, and we are counted in that lot, that the screwheads are in charge of both sides and they are currently slaughtering the doomed.

SheaNC said...

Welcome to Berlin.