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...

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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