The times they are a-changing…

Can you feel it on the wind? In the US right now we are seeing a shift not so much a shift to the right, although there has been, but a shift to the authoritarian… It is striking that the US is now involved in a war with no end, much like that found in 1984. It is striking that those in power feel immune to rewrite history (or their part in it, remember the claims for the war) like they perfected in 1984. It is striking that the act of criticising the powers that be, the dogma of the day is the crime, is seen as the important question and not he truth uncovered. Last week President Bush criticized one of the few organs of freedom and openness for telling the citizens of the nation of illegal activities performed by its own government. It should be noted that this is not the first time that the Bush administration has saw fit to “re-intrepid” laws or the US Constitution and Bill of Rights to justify its activities, lest we forget rendition, torture, Phone tapping…
The shift is not in the fact that the Republican revolution has done the things it has done, although they are distributing in their own right, it is how they defend them or should I say they don’t defend them. They have shifted from trying to justify their actions to attacking all those who criticise or show a difference of opinion as traitors to the nations, dangerous to the safety of the people and, worst of all, hide behind the veil of war to defend and justify these attracts and their actions. I know you will say I just said they did not defend their actions but attacked, and then I said they defended their action by being at war, this is not a contradiction but amplification. It is amplification because they do not defend the war, not anymore; they do not defend their performance of the war, except to state there are no other alternative ways (although there are those who said there are). The war is an amplification because they use it, a war that could have not end, has no solid enemy, has not chance of ultimate success, but it does provide an excuse to duck and criticism about execution of the war, about the grab for power in the name of war, and the overt attempt at crushing all descent in the name of the war.
No times they are a changing and you can hear in the wind, of CNN, Fox and the other media prostitutes as they bend over and take one for the nation. As a student of history it has provided an interesting contrast to the totalitarian states created in the last century in Germany and Russia. The US government has not use overt violence yet, well at lest on its own nationals but perhaps this has changed as those arrested in Florida may be a sign or a warning to those that even if you are American, in the name of war, you may be treated like the show trials of other requiems, can the black shirts be far behind (let us not forget the Minuteman Project a so called Citizen Border Guard). I am thankful that I am north of this meltdown and hope we can avoid the loss of freedom I see happening in the US, and then again I am fearful because, thanks to our vast reserves of oil, gas and water, I am beginning to understand what it was like to live in Poland during the rise of National Socialism in its neighbour.