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Anyone else becoming terrified of Liberals.

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  • #482
    Walter H Price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    eire4 wrote: »
    Good point and that economy has skyrocketed since 2001 when after the terrorists attacks the Bush government used the crisis as an excuse to creat the Orwellian surveillance state now in place and largely run by private companies not the government. Then with the Iraqi war they privatized as much of the military as possible. Be it massive contracts to Halliburton to set up bases for the troops and everything in the bases being done by private companies to hiring military contractors to carry out military operations.

    Now your seeing the bigger picture , the US is war inc , war on drugs , war on terror ... thats what fuels the economy , they export war (through sale of weapons) fight against those they've armed the rebuild their country and sell it back to them.

    Its not racism, its not islamophobia or for the protection of freedom , its not imperialism , its just business


  • #483
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,646 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    It's the worst kind of orwellian state-it's searching, nay, pretending to search, for supposed 'threats'. But then it's a country where a girl can be kidnapped, raped, and held in open view, until adulthood. Then raped so that she has her rapists child-and yet eighteen years go by, she's on home soil, and 'cannot be found'. Yet she's on someone's lawn, and nobody says anything.

    Yet a supposed 'terrorist' can be stopped at an airport, detained with no evidence or trial, and held in captivity for no reason. Orwellian? MAybe. But it's more fabricated dangers than anything.
    Hell, a millionaire can stand in open view and claim she's gonna bomb the whitehouse-nothing happens cos she's rich and white. A ten year old kid plays with a water pistol, and because he's black, gets shot to death.
    It's not a country, it's a large scale prison.


  • #484
    eire4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,916 ✭✭✭eire4


    Walter H Price wrote: »
    Now your seeing the bigger picture , the US is war inc , war on drugs , war on terror ... thats what fuels the economy , they export war (through sale of weapons) fight against those they've armed the rebuild their country and sell it back to them.

    Its not racism, its not islamophobia or for the protection of freedom , its not imperialism , its just business

    In many ways the US mentality at government level is one of empire but unlike in the past where it was based on taking over a country physically the US is more about an economic empire and in particular is about imposing its Friedmanite economic agenda euphemistically called the Washington consensus which is basically deregulate everything so the people and the environments have no protections, privatize pretty much everything and get rid of the social safety net and then the magical free market will usher in the Friedmanite utopia. Reality is this ideology produces dystopia although there are massive profits to be made by the wealthy and major corporations and thats all they really care about.


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