Actualité - Bush has turned the US into a Police State
Franc-Parler publie un commentaire de Prensa Latina News Agency sur la situation politique aux États-Unis. La création des conditions pour un État fasciste n'est pas une simple question rhétorique. Une série de scandales liés à l'espionnage illégal d'Américains par la NSA (National Security Agency) a été révélée récemment, sans parler du camp de torture de la base de Guantanamo et du profilage racial partout aux États-Unis.
Washington, May 26 (Prensa Latina) - From secret detention centers to warrantless wiretapping are only two signs of how the Bush administration has turned the country into a police state, says Allan Uthman of the alternative newsletter Buffalo Beast.
The author points to 10 signs that show that it may well be the case for the US. The Internet clampdown is number one in the list, followed by the War on Terror campaign, the US Patriot Act to back the latter and prison camps to keep the suspects of terrorism according to Bush standards.
Attempts to regulate and filter Internet content are intensifying lately, says Uthman. These come both from telecommunications corporations (who are gearing up to pass legislation transferring ownership and regulation of the internet to themselves), and the Pentagon (which issued an "Information Operations Roadmap" in 2003, signed by Donald Rumsfeld, which outlines tactics such as network attacks and acknowledges, without suggesting a remedy, that US propaganda planted in other countries has easily found its way to Americans via the internet).
As for prisons, this last January the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million to build detention centers in the United States, for the purpose of unspecified "new programs." Of course, the obvious first guess would be that these new programs might involve rounding up Muslims or political dissenters.
Touchscreen voting machines are fifth on the list of signs, according to Uthman, who says these contraptions are bound to perpetuate corrupt elections like the ones in 2000 and 2004.
The coming midterm elections will be an interesting test of voting integrity, especially if the Democrats don´t win substantial gains. Bush just suggested that his brother Jeb would make a good president, preparing the way for a next bout of grabbing at the polls.
Having a Republican majority Congress, Bush has never vetoed a bill. But he likes to simply nullify laws he doesn´t like with "signing statements", another sign of the Police State. Bush has issued over 700 such statements, twice as many as all previous presidents combined, said the Boston Globe.
Essentially, this administration is bypassing the judiciary system and deciding for itself whether laws are constitutional or not.
Massive wiretapping comes as the number seven sign, followed by free speech and high-ranking whistleblowers, referring to administration officials who resign in protest and criticize the White House en masse and are later cast as traitorous, anti-American and similar accusations.
Last, but not least comes the CIA shakeup in Uthman´s list. The author denies that Porter Goss was fired because he was resisting the efforts of Rumsfeld or Negroponte. Goss was probably canned, he affirms, due to a scandal involving a crooked defense contractor, his hand-picked third-in-command, the Watergate hotel and some hookers.
Everything is thus rigged, the Internet, enemies, elections and the spooks according to Bush´s view of the world and how it should be run. Remember the good old days, when the CIA were the bad guys?
(Prensa Latina News Agency)
Washington, May 26 (Prensa Latina) - From secret detention centers to warrantless wiretapping are only two signs of how the Bush administration has turned the country into a police state, says Allan Uthman of the alternative newsletter Buffalo Beast.
The author points to 10 signs that show that it may well be the case for the US. The Internet clampdown is number one in the list, followed by the War on Terror campaign, the US Patriot Act to back the latter and prison camps to keep the suspects of terrorism according to Bush standards.
Attempts to regulate and filter Internet content are intensifying lately, says Uthman. These come both from telecommunications corporations (who are gearing up to pass legislation transferring ownership and regulation of the internet to themselves), and the Pentagon (which issued an "Information Operations Roadmap" in 2003, signed by Donald Rumsfeld, which outlines tactics such as network attacks and acknowledges, without suggesting a remedy, that US propaganda planted in other countries has easily found its way to Americans via the internet).
As for prisons, this last January the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million to build detention centers in the United States, for the purpose of unspecified "new programs." Of course, the obvious first guess would be that these new programs might involve rounding up Muslims or political dissenters.
Touchscreen voting machines are fifth on the list of signs, according to Uthman, who says these contraptions are bound to perpetuate corrupt elections like the ones in 2000 and 2004.
The coming midterm elections will be an interesting test of voting integrity, especially if the Democrats don´t win substantial gains. Bush just suggested that his brother Jeb would make a good president, preparing the way for a next bout of grabbing at the polls.
Having a Republican majority Congress, Bush has never vetoed a bill. But he likes to simply nullify laws he doesn´t like with "signing statements", another sign of the Police State. Bush has issued over 700 such statements, twice as many as all previous presidents combined, said the Boston Globe.
Essentially, this administration is bypassing the judiciary system and deciding for itself whether laws are constitutional or not.
Massive wiretapping comes as the number seven sign, followed by free speech and high-ranking whistleblowers, referring to administration officials who resign in protest and criticize the White House en masse and are later cast as traitorous, anti-American and similar accusations.
Last, but not least comes the CIA shakeup in Uthman´s list. The author denies that Porter Goss was fired because he was resisting the efforts of Rumsfeld or Negroponte. Goss was probably canned, he affirms, due to a scandal involving a crooked defense contractor, his hand-picked third-in-command, the Watergate hotel and some hookers.
Everything is thus rigged, the Internet, enemies, elections and the spooks according to Bush´s view of the world and how it should be run. Remember the good old days, when the CIA were the bad guys?
(Prensa Latina News Agency)
Libellés : États-Unis
posted by Franc-Parler at 2:40 p.m.
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