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Friday, April 14, 2006 |
AmericaBlog: "Iran is ten years away from developing nuclear weapons. There is no discussion of America rushing into another premature war until either Bush leaves office, or Congress is able to provide effective oversight of, and can serve as a counter-balance to, the Bush administration's incompetence."
Harper's Magazine for April has two interesting articles:
The Spirit of Disobedience - An invitation to resistance
"We so desperately need a spirited culture of refusal, a counter-life to the reigning corporate culture of death.
We need to turn to good, useful, and beautiful work. We need to ask, as Thoreau and Ruskin did, What are the life-giving things? Such important questions are answered for us in the present by the corporate state, while we are left with the most trivial decisions: what programs to watch on TV and what model car to buy.
We need to work inventively - as Christ did, as Thoreau did - in the spirit of disobedience for the purpose of refusing the social order into which we happen to have been born and putting in its place a culture of life-giving things.
So let the Age turn, as St. Paul promised. We're well done with this world."
American Coup d'Etat - Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable
"Even the best-equipped terrorists, for their part, could dispatch at most a city or two; and armed revolution is a futile prospect, so fearsomely is our homeland secured by police and military forces. To subdue America entirely, the only route remaining would be to seize the machinery of state itself, to steer it toward malign ends - to carry out, that is, a coup d'état.
The question that arises is whether, in fact, we're not already experiencing what is in essence a creeping coup d'état. But it's not people in uniform who are seizing power. It's militarized civilians, who conceive of the world as such a dangerous place that military power has to predominate, that constitutional constraints on the military need to be loosened."
In fact, those militarized civilians in authority are deliberately making this world a dangerous place, to justify their coup d'état.
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BBC: "An RAF doctor who refused to serve in Iraq has been sentenced to eight months in jail and dismissed from the service.
Flt Lt Malcolm Kendall-Smith, 37, was found guilty of five charges of disobeying orders after he refused to go to Basra last June."
That's what you get when war criminals like Tony Blair rule the country. Tony Blair should be in jail.
Yahoo: "An 82-year-old woman received a $114 ticket for taking too long to cross a street."
Scotsman: "At least 158 serving police officers in Scotland have convictions for offences ranging from assault and drink-driving to attempting to pervert the course of justice."
In the Netherlands police were involved in tipping criminals about raids. And I suppose the situation in the US is even worse.
There seem to be more criminal elements in politics and law enforcement than in the population at large.
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