The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82028 Message #2265326
Posted By: Amos
18-Feb-08 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular views of the Bush Administration
"...Does this endless presidency of loopholes and fine print extend even here? If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend...YouÕre a fascist Ñ get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it! What else is this but fascism? Did you see Mark Klein on this newscast last November?
Mark Klein was the AT&T whistleblower who explained in the placid, dull terms of your local neighborhood IT desk how he personally attached all AT&T circuits, everything, carrying every one of your phone calls, every one of your e-mails, every bit of your Web browsing into a secure room, room No. 641-A at the Folsom Street facility in San Francisco, where it was all copied so the government could look at it.
Not some of it, not just the international part of it, certainly not just the stuff some spy, a spy both patriotic and telepathic, might be able to divine had been sent or spoken by or to a terrorist.
Everything! Every time you looked at a naked picture. Every time you bid on eBay. Every time you phoned in a donation to a Democrat. ÒMy thought was,Ó Mr. Klein told us last November, ÒGeorge OrwellÕs Ô1984.Õ And here I am, forced to connect the Big Brother machine.Ó
And if thereÕs one thing we know about Big Brother, Mr. Bush, it is that he is Ñ you are Ñ a liar."