I find it hypocritical that while the United States Military cannot be involved in domestic affairs, as was highly detailed during the whole Katrina Nightmare, that this same Military barred from such interference, can however spy on citizens and compile records on them. It smacks so much of George Orwell’s 1984 that you have wondered what part of that novel is fiction, what part reality.
It also makes you wonder just what else is lying hidden among the corridors of that odd shaped building in Washington?
In February, 2006, the DoD acknowledged in a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee that it had ‘inappropriately’ collected information on protestors but did not name any of the organizations. (see Story)
Has the system of Justice totally gone? Is it totally disintegrating before our eyes, as I mean think about what has gone on over these last few years. You have the secret prisons around the world run by the CIA, the holding of foreign nationals at Gitmo, without legal remedies, you have illegal wiretapping on all citizens, and you have the FBI using administrative warrants improperly. That is just some of the things and now the Military is building up dossiers on local citizen groups that oppose the war, or the DADT policies?
What is next?
Vice Presidents give out names of spies, and maybe it is naive of me to even wonder about all this. But I do. I mean isn’t our society, Canada and the United States, supposed to be the Good Guys? Aren’t we supposed to hold higher values, ethics, morals, than the other nations out there? I mean isn’t that why we are the targets of Terrorists, and isn’t it our Rule of Law that separates us from the tin pot dictator regimes out there like Hugo Chavez and deposed tyrant Saadam Hussein?
If so, how then can any democracy tolerate the abuses above? Surely our Rule of Law has to survive even the attack of terrorists, or else we are simply no better than those who blow up buildings and send out murder bombers. If we can’t hold ourselves to these higher standards, how can we expect to even think of winning the war on Terror? If there is no difference, are we simply not spinning our wheels, spilling blood needlessly?
