the dawn of the global police state.. yes indeed

Guantanamo wasn't created to address the nebulous threat of global terrorism. As Neil Lewis confirms in a Jan 1, New York Times article, "very few of the prisoners had much value." (This has been corroborated by many other sources who acknowledge that the more dangerous Al Qaida suspects have been spirited away to other locations for interrogation) Rather, it was built to broadcast the launching of a global police state, administered by the United States and in brazen defiance of universally accepted standards of justice. This explains the administration's growing hostility towards the UN. Beyond the inflammatory rhetoric, the Bush team is battling the world body to be accepted as the final authority on international affairs. Guantanamo is the collaborative vision of American plutocrats who are close to the administration and who affect policy decisions through their respective think tanks and lobbyists. If that wasn't true, we would have heard squeals of protest echoing from every corner of the nation. Instead, (apart from a scattering of human rights groups and the ACLU) there's been hardly a peep from the country's elites. For the most part, "the privileged few" have no problem with a system that categorically denies its victims even minimal human rights. The disparity in wealth sadly disposes many of these plutocrats to more autocratic government.

this is the emergence of the new world order.. a Randian, Straussian fascism that is designed to support the very very wealthy to live and control a planet that will provide for them and serve no other purpose. part and parcel of this was the resistance to offering huge sums of dollars to support those afflicted in tragedy all over the world. reducing the chances to live, to succeed, to rebuild lives, helps reduce the prospect of having people around who might resist the urge to protest or dissent from being ruled by the elites. building prisons around the planet in which to house indefinitely those detained, but not convicted of any crimes whatsoever, affords the neo-feudal lords of capital the luxury of creating the necessary appearances of control. we are all in big trouble here people. heading down a path from which only more dark days will be manifest for a long time to come