Scary Article of the Day

[jducoeur]

Okay, this article is officially Scary. Not "worrying", not "a matter of concern", but capital-S Scary. Even if all that's happening is that people are fleeing in fear of being detained (as opposed to actually getting "disappeared"), it indicates just how badly fouled-up the Body Politic now is.

How in God's name did we get from the optimism of three years ago to the return of McCarthyite society today? The government is getting downright reprehensible...

Comments

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

I've seen that link in a lot of journals, and... I'm not quite sure what I think of it. While it's very alarming and scary on the surface, it also strikes me as kind of incomplete, sensationalist, and full of conclusion-jumping. While I'm worried, I'm also remaining cautiously skeptical until I get some more information, which I didn't see while wading through the hundred-plus comments...

[tpau]

oh good, it wasn't jsut me... i foudn it very disturbing, but also a little panicky sounding... still doesn't change the fact that i want to move to canada

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I'm also glad this wasn't just me.

Not that the country isn't a huge pile of crap right now, but I suspect this one needs some research before we get all freaky. One person vanishing? He did, after all, say, "My Dad is gone..." before, right?

Who knows?

[its-just-me.livejournal.com]

Scary indeed

We have met the enemy...

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

What I find most scary is that none of us doubt the possibility that, even now, Ashcroft has snatch-teams running around at midnight seizing up US citizens (or legal immigrants), transporting them to who knows where (Guantanamo), and detaining them, or torturing or even killing them, and that we accept that we would in fact know nothing about it.

And that we worry that we can do nothing about it. That scares me most.

TMH

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the following post says that the family got out to Amsterdam.

I wasn't scared about the fact that the family disappeared as disturbing as the fact that they had to, whether it was government sanctioned or not...