"Fascism is on the march" -George W. Bush

Actually, the word he used was "freedom", but we all know what he really meant.

Excessive secrecy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1140584400&en=aefb4d8fc1e315bc&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

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Suppression of free speech:

http://www.nsarchive.org/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060224/ap_on_go_ot/irs_politics

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/260424_spies22.html

http://www.unionleader.com/columns.aspx/Opinion?channel=139832ce-97eb-4460-bf99-b71df3b7f0cc

And persecution of dissent/political threats:

http://leenrage.blogspot.com/2006/02/who-are-detainment-camps-for.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0221-32.htm



Work Makes You Free

“There are always ways to fall asleep,
but to be alive
is to forsake the fear of blood
And dreams aren’t excuses anymore”
from Bleed Through by Joy Harjo

The alarm no longer buzzes
you have overslept
you can’t hit the snooze button
even one more time

A thief has smashed the walls
of your Neiman-Marcus dreams
and you will never be allowed
to enter dream land again

Even your Wal-Mart waking life
no longer belongs to you
you have become
a property of the State

You now live in a world
where a pound is really only half
where capitalism is enforced
with tear gas and pepper spray
and everything you see
belongs to the corporation

You are not dreaming
you will never dream again
because you traded liberty
for the security
of a split-level ranch style
V-8 leather buckets
9:00 tee time
central air conditioning
Gucci ski vacation at Vail
roaring drunk
Cancun fantasy

And the only thing you will see
from this day on
will be the words above the gate

Arbeit macht frei

Auschwitz
is open for business