Very Hot People

Subject: Re: Very Hot People Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:10 pm

Mr. Mike wrote:: QUESTION: do u guys know who this is? u should. he is gay and very much in the news. but even so, not as much as he should be:

Bradley Manning Wink

Subject: Re: Very Hot People Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:43 pm

vagabond wrote:

Mr. Mike wrote:: QUESTION: do u guys know who this is? u should. he is gay and very much in the news. but even so, not as much as he should be:

Bradley Manning Wink

right u r. i wonder how many of my fellow citizens know about this ... or understand the implications ... or care. ne1 who doesn't believe this country can become like nazi germany isn't paying attention. it is happening and has been happening bit by bit my whole life.

Quote :: ..The psychological torture of Pvt. Bradley Manning--who has now been imprisoned for seven months without being convicted of any crime--mirrors the breaking of the dissident Winston Smith at the end of [George Orwell’s novel] "1984." Manning is being held as a "maximum custody detainee" in the brig at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia. He spends 23 of every 24 hours alone. He is denied exercise. He cannot have a pillow or sheets for his bed. Army doctors have been plying him with antidepressants. The cruder forms of torture of the Gestapo have been replaced with refined Orwellian techniques, largely developed by government psychologists, to turn dissidents like Manning into vegetables. We break souls as well as bodies. It is more effective. Now we can all be taken to Orwell's dreaded Room 101 to become compliant and harmless. These "special administrative measures" are regularly imposed on our dissidents, including Syed Fahad Hashmi, who was imprisoned under similar conditions for three years before going to trial. The techniques have psychologically maimed thousands of detainees in our black sites around the globe. They are the staple form of control in our maximum security prisons where the corporate state makes war on our most politically astute underclass--African-Americans.

...The public, at some point, will have to face some very unpleasant truths. The good-paying jobs are not coming back. The largest deficits in human history mean that we are trapped in a debt peonage system that will be used by the corporate state to eradicate the last vestiges of social protection for citizens, including Social Security. The state has devolved from a capitalist democracy to neo-feudalism. And when these truths become apparent, anger will replace the corporate-imposed cheerful conformity. The bleakness of our post-industrial pockets, where some 40 million Americans live in a state of poverty and tens of millions in a category called "near poverty," coupled with the lack of credit to save families from foreclosures, bank repossessions and bankruptcy from medical bills, means that inverted totalitarianism will no longer work.

... The noose is tightening. The era of amusement is being replaced by the era of repression. Tens of millions of citizens have had their e-mails and phone records turned over to the government. We are the most monitored and spied-on citizenry in human history. Many of us have our daily routine caught on dozens of security cameras. Our proclivities and habits are recorded on the Internet. Our profiles are electronically generated. Our bodies are patted down at airports and filmed by scanners. And public service announcements, car inspection stickers, and public transportation posters constantly urge us to report suspicious activity. The enemy is everywhere.

More: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227/