I read something just now that makes me more pissed off at our goddamn piece of shit government than I've ever been.
Check this out: Yesterday, 9/11/11, a half-Jewish/half-Arab American citizen, born in here in what used to be known as the home of the brave, who lives in Des Moines Iowa, the heartland of the land of the formerly free, was hauled off an aircraft, thrown in a cell, strip searched, and questioned by Homeland Security? Her crime? She had been seated next to two Indian men (whom she did not know) and they had been observed to be "acting suspicious".
What to know what it's liked to be strip-searched by your government? She'll tell you:
I was to stand, face the wall in a position so the camera above the toilet couldn’t see, and take off my clothes. I complied. She commented on my tattoo, saying, “Oh you have one of those things–good and evil, right?”
“Yin and yang. Balance,” I said, grabbing my clothes to redress.
“You understand why we have to do this, right? It’s for our own protection,” she told me.
Because I am so violent. And pulling me off an airplane, handcuffing me and patting me down against a squad car didn’t offer enough protection. They also needed to make sure all my orifices were free and clear.
Oh, and the Indian men were strip-searched too. After this came the interrogation:
She led me to a small, white room where a man who introduced himself as an FBI agent was waiting for me. I sat on one of three chairs at a small metal table, and the female agent sat across from me. They both offered me their badges for inspection, not that I would have known the difference, but they were calm and not pushy. I appreciated that. The male agent proceeded to ask me a series of questions about where I had been, where I was going, about my family, if I had noticed any suspicious behavior on the plane. The other agent took notes while I talked. They asked if I knew the two men sitting next to me, and if I noticed them getting up during the flight or doing anything I would consider suspicious.
But it turns out that it was nothing at all. Sorry about the strip search. Sorry about the arrest. Sorry about being locked in a jail cell.
Oh, and here's what IMHO is the money quote from the FBI thug:
“It’s 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts. They are seeing things that aren’t there.” He said they had to act on a report of suspicious behavior, and this is what the reaction looks like.
He said there had been 50 other similar incidents across the country that day.
So wake up, you Americans who think it can't happen here. Wake up you fools before it is too late. This country is headed right into a dictatorship, and no it won't announce itself, it will still have the outward form of a democracy, but it will not be one.
And I warn you also that this hideous "terror" will fall most heavily on racial minorities while the rich and the white will feel it far less. Is this what you want for America? This must end, because if it doesn't, America will end, and we'll become, I don't know . . . the United States of Homeland.
Update: I recognize that the title may not be optimum. But I am serious. You and I will lose our country if we let this happen, as it seems to be happening, over and over again. Nor is this to imply that racial hatred or violence is new, of course it is not. Yet here we see it allied with the modern security state, which will grind down the individual to a fine powder, and the racial, ethnic and religious minorities among us will be the first to go.