It's been happening for a long time...and in many places. In Asia. In Latin America. In Africa. In Europe. In the Middle East. Wherever the servants of the Empire go.

It's just been made official now, that's all. That's what's different. Have care, because first they torture and murder powerless foreign people in faraway places, and they do it quietly and you don't even hear about it much, if at all. Then one day they do it on your own ground. And they hardly even bother to conceal it anymore.

That's how it works. A little bit at a time. It's called the totalitarion tiptoe. It approaches in little steps, small increments of change, and one day there it is right in front of you and all around you. By that time the mainstream media will simply be its compliant mouthpiece, and the courts will have been bought.

It does things like launching unprovoked wars of its own choice on distant countries that have never attacked you, and couldn't possibly have attacked you even if they'd wanted to. It declares war on a tactic ("terror") rather than on an actual enemy, while it practices the very tactic that it claims to BE fighting! That's what dictators do. That's what war criminals do. That's what totalitarian systems do. Take care. Such people are literally capable of anything, and they don't care what you think about it either...although they might care enough to find a way to shut you up at some point if you are a known "dissident".

Do you think it will just end when Mr Bush leaves office? I wish I was that optimistic.