D Day
For almost a year I have been going on about the likelihood if not inevitability of a depression. Now, as banks continue to collapse, I'm actually beginning to hear financial analysts use the D word in the context of what's happening now.
This seemed so obvious and inevitable if you know anything about how our economy works, but sadly most people don't, and if a bald guy and a hot chick tell them every thing's O.K. on MSNBC, well that's what they'll believe. The majority of the population is incapable of critical or independent thought in any area, and simply choose to trust the word generally of whoever feeds them the most comforting bullshit.
Besides the joy of a depression, there are far worse consequences that could arise from such an economic crash, not least of which it would give the administration the legal right to declare martial law. This is known as the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive and can be found on the White House website here http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html.
Of course, just because the conditions now exist to allow our already practically non existent Democracy to be suspended is no reason to worry I'm sure. Nor should you worry that Halliburton just received a government contract to build internment camps in the U.S., you know, just in case. Certainly you shouldn't worry that an army unit which has been in Iraq for 35 of the last 36 months is being deployed to the United States for domestic operations.
No one knows where this will all lead, but we should be able to all agree that internment camps, depression, and battle hardened troops being used as a civilian police force probably isn't a great confluence of events.
This seemed so obvious and inevitable if you know anything about how our economy works, but sadly most people don't, and if a bald guy and a hot chick tell them every thing's O.K. on MSNBC, well that's what they'll believe. The majority of the population is incapable of critical or independent thought in any area, and simply choose to trust the word generally of whoever feeds them the most comforting bullshit.
Besides the joy of a depression, there are far worse consequences that could arise from such an economic crash, not least of which it would give the administration the legal right to declare martial law. This is known as the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive and can be found on the White House website here http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html.
Of course, just because the conditions now exist to allow our already practically non existent Democracy to be suspended is no reason to worry I'm sure. Nor should you worry that Halliburton just received a government contract to build internment camps in the U.S., you know, just in case. Certainly you shouldn't worry that an army unit which has been in Iraq for 35 of the last 36 months is being deployed to the United States for domestic operations.
No one knows where this will all lead, but we should be able to all agree that internment camps, depression, and battle hardened troops being used as a civilian police force probably isn't a great confluence of events.