Ever since 9/11, George Bush's government has engaged in a steady relentless attack on civil liberties and rights. From the PATRIOT act through to a series of illegal (and immoral) spying programs, the US government has engaged in a steady erosion of civil rights and liberties in the name of "The War on Terror" (tm).
I've thought for a while that the United States was headed down a slippery path towards a totalitarian state. Any country that operates "secret" prisons, and holds people outside of the due process of law is already well on the road there. Recent immigration idiocy where natural born US citizens have been denied entry to the United States are indicators of a government that no longer see their citizens as "real people".
When a government official can suggest "testing" weapons systems on civilians, you know that they have lost all perspective on the very people that they are responsible to. When I read this, my jaw dropped - I'm still picking pieces of it up off the floor.
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