Preliminary thoughts on Shock Doctrine

I started Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine. She begins with a brief history of torture and how research funded by the US in the 50s and 60s has been put into practice. Let me just say, that seeing the pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib and having read that portion of the book puts it into a whole new terrifying perspective. The idea they tried to sell us that this was just a few bad apples having their “fun” was laughable anyway, but this seals it. State sanctioned torture. Sickeningly enough they don’t even need to lie anymore. It is well known that we are still doing these things to “terrorists” (No proof needed – classification of “enemy combatant” can be bestowed at any time to anyone.) in Guantanamo Bay and other secret prisons around the world.

Family values, morals, FREEDOM and democracy – aren’t they beautiful? But I guess this is the “liberal” (According to Republicans anyway, I think I must be far past liberal at this point.) way – It’s so weak and girly to give a shit about things like the human rights of people.

Have I mentioned that I completely envy/admire/love/idolize/want to be Naomi Klein? As much as I hate to “reduce” her to the level of celebrity crush or something.

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