"...silent, obedient consent...." points out cinema character V.
This word "consent" has been dogging me lately.
I don't think this really describes what always happens when a tyranny like Bush/Cheney et al take over. These creeps don't always pursue their goals and conduct their busyness in the light of day. They manipulate and coerce. They use fear-mongering and confusion. They lie and cheat. They use media control and propaganda. They use crooked electioneering and vote-thieving technology. More goes on with these crooks under the radar than on the radar. The resulting acquiescence of the Citizenry IS NOT TRUELY CONSENT. It is a manufactured, stolen consent resulting from dishonesty and trickery.
The secrecy, obfuscation and stonewalling of the Bush Crime Gang are perpetrated by them because these sociopaths KNOW the majority of the U.S. Citizenry would never give its consent to the Bushworld Plan if the details of that plan were common knowledge!
These creeps are like slugs that hide on the underside of leaves and flower pot saucers, doing their destruction out of sight and in the dark when they won't be seen. The Bush creeps don't want their real agenda known and hide their intent as much as possible.
TRUE CONSENT is like photosynthesis; it needs sunshine and openness. It is the antithesis of the Bush Menace's manufactured consent.
If your teenage child came to you and said her/his friend was having a birthday chaperoned by parents you know, and your child asked, "Can I go?" and you said "Sure", you'd have given your consent (permission) to your child. Now imagine that you later found out that their were no parents there at all and that your child lied to youi about it. Your child could whine, "But you said it was okay." But for one moment would you consider your child's whining valid?! The child lied to you in order to manufacture your consent. And it is the wrong behavior of a child.
And of a criminal.
In a civilized society children are corrected for such missteps and criminals punished for such crimes.
Bush has manufactured public opinion, agreement, permission, and the "consent of the governed" on tons of issues by now, most glaringly the Iraq Invasion and Occupation. Innocents have died as a result of this Bush/Cheney Iraq Ruse. Our treasury has been robbed under cover of this scamming. Our very vote ballots are violated and so invalidated.
WE MUST REMOVE THESE CRIMINALS FROM OFFICE. IT IS OUR DUTY AS AMERICAN CITIZENS. REVOKE THE POST-9/11 WAR POWERS AUTHORIZATION NOW AND IMPEACH AND PROSECUTE THIS ENTIRE CABAL WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!