Damn the Release of the Torture Report

[rhett o rick]

Now we, as a nation, have to look at it square in the eyes. No more denial, we tortured some folks. Sorry Mr. President but we brutally tortured many people, many innocent people and for what?

Now we must decide who we are as a nation. Now we must admit we are not the world’s “Good Guys”. We, all of us, are responsible for this horrendous blight on our national soul. We all stood by as a cabal took control of our government. They manipulated our election process and had it authorized by a corrupted Supreme Court. This coup was accomplished without any noticeable resistance from our elected representatives. Many representatives approved and most of the rest acquiesced. Few spoke out.

The public isn’t without blame but having been treated as lemmings for decades they/we went right off the cliff like good little authoritarians.

The “News” Media, or more like the propaganda arm of the new Reich, instead of fulfilling their democratic function of keeping our government honest, put on a parade for the new Reich, willing shills for the new Corporatism, or dare I use the “F” word, Fascism?

Now I know you’re saying to yourself, no, no not in my America. I vote therefore I am free. But “Fascism is like a fog that comes in the night, which you will not see until the mourning(sic) light, …” * “Fascism is capitalism in decay” Vladimir Lenin and our capitalism is definitely in decay.

If you still are hiding in your denial bubble, I suggest you read: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, by Milton Mayer, if you haven’t already.

So what will we do about it? We will growl and shake our heads and then scoot off to catch that sale on imported backscratchers at Walmart. We are a country of authoritarians that blindly support our leaders and rationalize away clear violations of our Constitution. And there are far too many of us that, not only accept the yoke of corporate slavery, but outwardly are antagonistic toward those that are fighting the creeping fog of fascism.

*I don’t have a source this quote.