Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Another Day, Another Shameful Ruling on Police State Spying

Click here to access article by Tom Burghardt from his blog Antifascist Calling
...in a collapsing Empire, where the indefinite detention or even the liquidation of "terrorism" suspects, alongside illegal warrantless spying, the trampling of First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly, the persecution of government whistleblowers who bring high state crimes to light, are now deemed unreviewable by any court by a quasi-fascist "Unitary Executive."
From my observations most Americans are blissfully unaware of this development. It is thoroughly covered up by the One Percent's media; and thus far their developing police state is carefully applying most of these measures against marginalized groups such as Muslims, activists, immigrants, and whistleblowers such as Sibel Edmonds. This, of course, brings to mind Martin Niemöller's famous admonition:
First they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.