Completely Unnecessary

I was reading Paul Constant’s feature in this week’s Stranger. It’s a piece about the 9/11 Truth movement - it’s pretty interesting, but while he ultimately doesn’t buy the conspiracy of 9/11, he wraps up the rest of the crap going on in the US in a particularly succinct manner:

The awful truth, of course, is that we’re all living in a huge conspiracy, and things are so ridiculous that we barely even think about it anymore. Even without a poll in front of me, it’s fairly safe to say that the majority of Seattleites know that we entered into the Iraq war under false pretenses. Our government routinely spies on its citizens both inside and outside its borders, and secret courts with special rules try and convict people of all sorts of crimes. We torture and kill civilians in other countries because we can, and the very name of the Department of Homeland Security is enough to make someone familiar with Orwell and German history nearly shit their pants in terror.

Amen, brother. I’ve been banging on about the naming of the DHS for years - seriously whose idea was that? Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Nazi rhetoric would know better than to use the word ‘homeland’. It’d be hilarious if it was satire.

Sadly - it’s America.

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