Weekend Economists Host a Lion July 5-7, 2013

[Demeter]

22. If he were the only one, I'd agree, Hugin

But he's been corroborated...even by Congress critters of the Democratic persuasion.

The only BS we've been getting is from the Fascists among us, insisting that there's nothing wrong with this monumental waste of resources AND violation of the 4th Amendment, and if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

You may be too young to remember FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. His tendency to collect personal information illegally (and use it to blackmail Presidents and other public figures) is a matter of record.

This current program is Hoovering on steroids.

Nobody needs to drive a wedge between North and South America. It's a gap much bigger than the Panama Canal...which, by the way, the Latinos are trying to usurp by building a newer, bigger one that ISN'T under US control.

And you may not remember the massive propaganda that was purveyed during the Peace Movement to discredit people: the trumped up charges, the beatings, the framing of innocents, the illegal raids. It still goes on, they are just getting better at it.


And even if only 10% of the claims are true, it is more than our fragile democracy can tolerate.