With all the crazy behavior by the Republicans, one can loose sight of the big issue which is the collusion between the Democrats and the Republicans in support of corporations, wars and the general attack on what used to be our government.
The writer Chris Hedges posted an article a couple of months ago that argued that we are enacting both 1984 and Brave New World right now. You can find the article by searching the web.
A step toward this is the backroom deal that the Senate is trying to pull off in secret.
REALLY TIME TO CONTACT YOUR SENATORS ON THIS ISSUE!
The citizen uprising in Wisconsin shows us what is needed.
The same is needed on the national level to challenge the two factions who together run the place for the corporations and the war machine. The two factions are the Democratic and Republican parties and our leader, Obama.
Juan Cole is the Paul Revere this morning in his post. Juan Cole is a middle east history professor at University of Michigan. A joke that has been circulating for several years is that the CIA could shut down their operations in the region and rely on his daily postings. That joke doesn't work because the CIA is not just intelligence gathering, it has its own fire power in drones and operatives, both employees and contractors like Blackwater to do dirty deeds.
Here is the title of Juan Cole's post this morning:
Protest Backroom Deal to Extend Un-Patriot Act til 2015
Here is the link to his blog:
http://www.juancole.com/...
From his blog:
05/22/2011 by Juan
There’s an action alert by a supporter of Rand Paul over at Firedoglake saying that an attempt will be made at 5 pm on Monday in the Senate to extend the misnamed ‘PATRIOT Act’ for four years. There will be an attempt to get unanimous consent for the extension, with just a motion to which there should be no objections.
Rand’s alert says,
“The surveillance state’s ability to snoop through your business records, pry into your library book checkouts, monitor so-called “lone wolfs,” and spy on your personal communications through roving wiretaps will be extended until 2015, which “coincidentally” is not an election year.”
Be sure and follow the link to Glenn Greenwald's article on the The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State.
I think that Glenn Greenwald is the most important single writer today on the decline to Dark Ages America. I gladly pay $45 per year to www.salon.com to support his work.
PLEASE WRITE YOUR SENATORS TO PROTEST THE PLANNED VOTE AT 5PM MONDAY IN THE SENATE!
We have to hold Obama and Democrats to the same standard we require of Governor Walker of WI.
It is a real possibility that we will be subjects of surveillance because, among other things, we demand transparency from our government.