The Future Has Caught Up With Us, by Paul Craig Roberts

neocons should read what an actual conservative has to say...not the new brand of communist conservatives...

The Future Has Caught Up With Us
[align=left]Paul Craig Roberts
V Dare
Monday, March 12, 2007
John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxleyâ??s novel, Brave New World first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxleyâ??s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries earlyâ??in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment. [ Huxley's Period Piece March 5th, 2007]
Alas, Franz Kafkaâ??s novel, The Trial published in 1925 and George Orwellâ??s novel, 1984, published in 1949, also have been turned into period pieces by the practices of the Bush Regime.
In Kafkaâ??s novel, Josef K. is arrested for reasons never given, tried for an unspecified crime, and executed.
The Trial is the model for the Bush Regimeâ??s Military Tribunals, which permit execution on the basis of hearsay, secret evidence unknown to the defendant, or confession extracted by torture.
For the past five years, the Bush Regime has held people in secret prisons without warrants, charges, or access to an attorney. Most detainees have been tortured and abused. Bushâ??s real world victims suffer from more disorientation and hopelessness than Kafkaâ??s character, Josef K.
In Orwellâ??s 1984 people are subjected to relentless spying. A state or alleged state of war is used to maintain total control over everyone. Lies have replaced truth, and the media serves as propagandist for the Ministry of Truth. The meaning of words, such as "freedom" has been perverted. The attitude of 1984â??s all powerful government is "you are with us or against us."
In the United States, each member elected to the House and Senate takes an oath to uphold the US Constitution, as does the president and vice president. Yet the Bush Regime drafted and Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, a constitutional monstrosity that denies the protection of law to everyone declared, without evidence, by the executive branch to be a suspected terrorist or enemy combatant.
The Military Commissions Act became law in "the land of the free" in 2006. The Act strips detainees of protections provided by the Geneva Conventions. The Act declares that no person "subject to trial by military commission under this chapter may invoke the Geneva Conventions as a source of rights."
The Act also denies detainees the protections of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights: "No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of" a detainee. Some language in the Act refers to detainees as "aliens," but, ominously, other language does not limit the Actâ??s applicability to "aliens."
In Orwellâ??s novel, Winston Smith commits a thought crime, is arrested by the Thought Police, and imprisoned in the Ministry of Love. Winstonâ??s dearth of rights under Big Brother are comparable to the absence of rights of detainees under the Military Commissions Act.
This dangerous legislation is the product of the same regime that resurrected the medieval practice of torture of prisoners and that has consistently lied about the reasons for the wars it has initiated.
Scholars, such as Philip Cooper of Portland State University, warn that the Bush Regime is using presidential signing statements to replace constitutional checks and balances with elevated executive powers associated with the unitary executive theory.
The unitary executive theory is a way to turn the US president into Big Brother. Already Bush is replacing Congress as the arbiter of law and the judiciary as the arbiter of rights. The media enable his usurpation, and the people, distracted by war and "terrorism," have their various forms of soma.
Amazing but trueâ??three novels of the early 20th century predicted present day America.[/align]

You post some interesting shit. I know what you're talking about too. You're not the only one. Some of us just know better :)

I suppose if a major drought happened you would be quoting "Grapes of wrath"? Damn Gene Roddenberry, he must have time traveled to predict it all in star trek!


When will then be now?

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Originally Posted by pisshead

Yet the Bush Regime drafted and Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, a constitutional monstrosity that denies the protection of law to everyone declared, without evidence........blah, blah,blah

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LOL.....This FIRST damn link I look into proves we got another b.s. conspiracy site. Bush regime drafted this?

S.3930
Title: A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen McConnell, Mitch [KY] (introduced 9/22/2006) Cosponsors (2)
Related Bills: H.RES.1054, H.R.6054, H.R.6166, S.3861, S.3886, S.3901, S.3929
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 109-366 [GPO: Text, PDF]
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COSPONSORS(2), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)


Sen Frist, William H. [TN] - 9/22/2006
Sen Warner, John [VA] - 9/22/2006

Have a good one!:s4:

One of the most intelligent quotes about this is from George Santayana who wrote, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Wanting to start conspiracy witch hunts is one thing that some people have not learned is a historically bad idea.

The gross distortions, exaggerations, inaccuracies, and outright lies in the Paul Craig Roberts article are more fodder for these extremists' paranoia and delusions.

History is laughing at us...

Plotting it's discovery...

For the past five years, the Bush Regime has held people in secret prisons without warrants, charges, or access to an attorney. Most detainees have been tortured and abused. Bushâ??s real world victims suffer from more disorientation and hopelessness than Kafkaâ??s character, Josef K.
This alone should be reason for concern. This is a fact, touted by every media news outlet but FOX. If someone has a problem believing this, they need a mental tune up!