We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, May 21, 2011

The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State

Click here to access article by Glenn Greenwald from Salon.

We now live in a National Security State, otherwise known as a police state. Yes, my friends, it is the "new normal"--so, get used to it.  And the war on Libya is legal because the President, our Fuehrer, says so. (See update 2 in article.)