Recently I read an article about a conspiracy: A Conspiracy Theory About a Secret Police Force Has Ignited a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia. This is a panic over Executive Order 12425. It is a frenzy perpetrated by the right wing–or, as the left leaning press likes to call them, the rightwing nuts. And Obama amended it. The right wing, of course, conveniently forgets this Executive Order was crafted by the Bush people and signed by their hero, George W. Bush. As the writer of this article notes, the interpretation is, to be kind, flawed. While this journalist goes off on the foolishness of this being a conspiracy for a police state, as the right wing shouts, he (or she) seems to be implying that this is just another conspiracy theory that is unfounded. This writer implies that there is no police state America. And I wonder where this person has his (or her) head, for it has been common knowledge that there is a military presence in America, contravening law, contravening the posse comitatus; that this military presence has, indeed, already been used to control unrest and round up anti-socials; that this military presence was at the most recent Inaugural at 15,000 strong, sitting atop roofs with high-tech surveillance and sniperware, in the name of protecting the President and the people.
This writer is a lefty. Yet this person is out of touch with reality, believing that there is no police state in America. And this person is totally unable to see what is happening here, totally unable to fathom the rightwing nuts’ rantings. The rightwing pundits, led by Glenn Beck, are creating a smoke screen. Shouting about a signed and sealed police state and how un-American this is while having already supported the stationing of the military on US soil, that is, the making of a police state–along with the two Patriot Acts. They are conflating the issue and confusing the issue in order to rationalize their very souls. They will be using this Executive Order when their boys are once again heading the dictatorship to control the unrest of an unruly (un-American) populace. They will be glad they’ve got it and be glad to use it. They put it in place to begin with. All of the hooplah over Executive Order 12425 is to hide the fact that the very police state they are bitching about and supposedly fear is, in fact, already in place–and at their behest. They will be hoping that the people will forget, as they most assuredly will, the American people’s historical sense being only a few years old, certainly no more than four.
This might be a kind of disinformation the rightwing are engaging in. I prefer to think of it as misdirection, a favorite activity of magicians who get you to look over there when here is where the bait and switch is going on. That an ill-informed public is buying this is one thing; that the purported left is buying it hook, line and sinker is another. It is pitiful. It is a sign of mental necrosis.
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A Conspiracy of Truth
Recently I read an article about a conspiracy: A Conspiracy Theory About a Secret Police Force Has Ignited a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia. This is a panic over Executive Order 12425. It is a frenzy perpetrated by the right wing–or, as the left leaning press likes to call them, the rightwing nuts. And Obama amended it. The right wing, of course, conveniently forgets this Executive Order was crafted by the Bush people and signed by their hero, George W. Bush. As the writer of this article notes, the interpretation is, to be kind, flawed. While this journalist goes off on the foolishness of this being a conspiracy for a police state, as the right wing shouts, he (or she) seems to be implying that this is just another conspiracy theory that is unfounded. This writer implies that there is no police state America. And I wonder where this person has his (or her) head, for it has been common knowledge that there is a military presence in America, contravening law, contravening the posse comitatus; that this military presence has, indeed, already been used to control unrest and round up anti-socials; that this military presence was at the most recent Inaugural at 15,000 strong, sitting atop roofs with high-tech surveillance and sniperware, in the name of protecting the President and the people.
This writer is a lefty. Yet this person is out of touch with reality, believing that there is no police state in America. And this person is totally unable to see what is happening here, totally unable to fathom the rightwing nuts’ rantings. The rightwing pundits, led by Glenn Beck, are creating a smoke screen. Shouting about a signed and sealed police state and how un-American this is while having already supported the stationing of the military on US soil, that is, the making of a police state–along with the two Patriot Acts. They are conflating the issue and confusing the issue in order to rationalize their very souls. They will be using this Executive Order when their boys are once again heading the dictatorship to control the unrest of an unruly (un-American) populace. They will be glad they’ve got it and be glad to use it. They put it in place to begin with. All of the hooplah over Executive Order 12425 is to hide the fact that the very police state they are bitching about and supposedly fear is, in fact, already in place–and at their behest. They will be hoping that the people will forget, as they most assuredly will, the American people’s historical sense being only a few years old, certainly no more than four.
This might be a kind of disinformation the rightwing are engaging in. I prefer to think of it as misdirection, a favorite activity of magicians who get you to look over there when here is where the bait and switch is going on. That an ill-informed public is buying this is one thing; that the purported left is buying it hook, line and sinker is another. It is pitiful. It is a sign of mental necrosis.
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