HOMAN SQUARE

This blog follows immediately on the heels of the previous blog Zombies for what should be obvious reasons:

Rohm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago and one time type A personality adviser/crony of the Obama administration – the “buck stops” at his desk as being the mayor.

Is anyone surprised by this latest example of governmental and law enforcement overreach?

I’m certainly not when you consider domestic spying, Gitmo, the Mayor of Chicago, and the manner in which the Constitution  and Bill of Rights are being dismantled.

Factor in what is currently being referred to as Obamalaw that as I understand it seeks to federalize crimes and effectively remove the right of states to enact laws and adjudicate them and the message is all too clear – 1984 may have come and gone as a year in history but the dystopian future it spoke of is incrementally being delivered to each and every doorstep in this country.

USAG Holder is on his way out and one can assume this will be the final act of a deaf, dumb, and blind DOJ under his watch.

The Obama administration no doubt expecting a hailstorm of reaction for this proposed Obamalaw is playing it close to the vest for the time being and urging it’s supporters in the media to be receptive when the plan is announced.

Homan Square, equally repressive as the events and mindset that defined Tiananmen square.

I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said to the effect that any who surrender a right or liberty for a perceived security deserve neither.

The Bush administration conducted an orchestrated effort to circumvent and subvert such liberties and rights, but it’s efforts pale in comparison to the current administrations – sort of a modification of the concept of “trickle down economics” to trickle down oppression.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/homan-square

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/together-with-earth/from-warrior-cops-to-community-police

DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

The latest blogs have been about liberty and the inherent rights of the individual, as I’ve thought about these things I began to think that there may come a time in the looming dystopian future when a free thinker will look back at all this and assign guilt, an encompassing guilt that will respect neither party nor the politicians who populate them.

This free thinker may be  the child or grandchild of someone who has attempted  to defend and minimize what cannot be defended or minimized.

More than the present is at risk-the future is as well,

Dystopian futures have been written about by such literary giants as George Orwell and H.G. Wells.

It is a favored Hollywood genre now, but it’s quite possible that the issues we see currently are portents of things to come-there seems almost to be an inevitability about it

Prophecies among the nations and the world’s religions have spoken of such times-it doesn’t take a “believer” to see something is in the wind, rather an arrogance to deny, ignore, or believe that man is the pinnacle, able to bend all things to his will, that science or aliens from a galaxy far, far away will save the day.

Man has created and facilitated this mess we find ourselves in-all the societal wrongs speak to this, all the inequity and injustice, climate change, corporate greed, a downward spiralling dysfunctional and indifferent government, and the bill is coming due.

We are not to big to fail.