gwytherinn.com » freedom http://www.gwytherinn.com It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:54:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Preliminary thoughts on Shock Doctrine http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/09/03/preliminary-thoughts-on-shock-doctrinemike-huckabee-lol/ http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/09/03/preliminary-thoughts-on-shock-doctrinemike-huckabee-lol/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:37:40 +0000 Gwytherinn http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/09/03/preliminary-thoughts-on-shock-doctrinemike-huckabee-lol/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 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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  • To the Blindingly Stupid American Much of the time, I try to convince myself you’re...
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     Been slowwwwwwwwwly reading my way through Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, a compilation of talks Noam Chomsky has given and came across this today…. feel like it really pertains to my last post:

    Look, there isn’t any true capitalist society in the world, it couldn’t survive for ten minutes, but there are variations on capitalism, and the U.S. is towards the capitalist end of the world spectrum – not very far towards it, I should say, but towards it at least in values. And if you had a truly capitalist society, everything would be a commodity, including freedom: there would be as much of it as you can buy. Well, since the U.S. is towards that end of the spectrum, it means there’s an awful lot of freedom around if you can afford it. So, if you’re a black organizer in the ghetto, you don’t have much of it, and you’re in trouble – they can send the Chicago police in to murder you, like they did with Fred Hampton [a Black Panther assassinated by the F.B.I. in 1969]. But if you’re a white professional like me, you can buy a lot of freedom.

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