A while ago I stopped taking so much notice of the news. The news is just depressing most of the time and there is not a great deal I can personally do about it. Sure I recycle, give to charity, vote, but those things don’t take the fear away so I just don’t switch on the news quite as often as I did. So when I see people in forums and blogs get all worked up about news reports I think they need to back away from the media as I did. The future doesn’t seem so bleak when you distance yourself from the sensationalist headlines. Every now and then I succumb to checking the headlines, like today. After all, big news in the USA, got to know what is going on, eh?
Just when I think I have positivity and balance about our future these “time travellers” (who seem to all have the same mission of visiting forums in our time and spending their precious hours chatting with geeks and seem to crop up more and more since the success of “John Titor“) warn us of a coming apocalypse in our lifetime beginning with civil war in the United States. There are a few people who say Titor was right more than he has been proven wrong (his statements about black hole experiments and the IBM machine, etc). It’s enough to make you want to stock up on tinned food, wear a tinfoil hat and lock yourself in a cellar, or would be if it wasn’t so far out. Or is it, check out this from Yahoo! News …
Shortly after 9/11 Bush began the first of a long series of power grabs that have transformed him from the leader of a country beholden to its people to an authoritarian despot. He signed a secret executive order granting himself the right to declare anyone in the world, including a U.S. citizen, an “enemy combatant”–without proof–and order him assassinated. Violating federal law and privacy rights, Bush authorized the NSA to listen to our phone calls and read our e-mail.
FBI
, CIA and HomeSec goons “disappeared” thousands of people into a horrible new matrix of concentration camps and secret prisons.On October 17, 2006 Bush signed the Military Commissions Act. The new law, scarcely mentioned in the media, is breathtaking for the breadth of its attack on basic rights. Under the MCA either the president or the secretary of defense may declare you an “enemy combatant”–as usual, without proof. Under that designation you may be jailed, without the right to an attorney, for the rest of your life. You can even be tortured. Your U.S. citizenship can’t protect you. And it’s all “legal.”
Concentration Camps
In January 2006 HomeSec awarded a $385 million contract to Kellogg, Brown and Root, the subsidiary of Halliburton Co., to build “temporary detention and processing capabilities”–internment camps–”in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”
The question, asks Progressive magazine editor Ruth Conniff, “is what is the government planning to do with mass roundups of people?”
I think it is only natural to worry about the future, especially once you become a parent, but this stuff doesn’t help me keep a positive frame of mind. William Gibson might have got it right after all, heh.
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