18-01-2011, 08:52 AM
Good piece by George Monbiot. Dare one hope it and others like it will have some effect? What? Put the brakes on the drive to neo-fascism/neo-feudalism? The very last thing the UK and the USA have 'become' are democracies, where the Plebs make any decisions or change the structure of the Polity based on their wishes and sensibilities. The Oligarchs and their Corporations rule supreme...and more so with every day. Sadly....oh, so sadly. Those of us who see what is happening, seem only to be documenting the end of civil civilization; perhaps to likely the end of civilization and life on the Planet entirely. Its not too late, but getting very, VERY close to being 'too late'! IMO.
My bet it by 2012 all the same Police [public and privatized] horrors will not only still exist, but have increased budgets and operatives...however, perhaps they'll change the names as a PR move.The exact same [perhaps worse] goes on in the USA, by Police and FBI et al.
My prediction is that Kennedy's next step is a HUGE seven-figure advance on a book.
The more things change, the more they..........
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass