Civil Liberties

8/12/09

Civil Liberties in an Imperialist Society

     “Although tyranny, because it needs consent, may successfully rule over foreign people, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institution of its own people”… Hannah Arendt

          “The Origins of Totalitarianism” 

…that when the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny”…Thomas Jefferson

       Individual rights in a democratic nation are not very important of quite recent date, and highly unstable. Hence they are often sacrificed without difficulty and almost always violated without remorse…

       Imperialism and Militarism are one in the same, both aims at extending domination; so the die is cast; the militarists have cast the die and the American people have marched across their own Rubicon to become an Empire with global pretensions’.

Personal note: Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire became a dictator the river he crossed was called the “Rubicon” 49’ B.C. (the die was cast).

       Later that same night Cassius ask Bruits “upon what meat doth our Caesar feed that he has grown so great”.                                                                                       

Noam Chomsky:

Question: Why can you not find people using their brain?

Answer: Because they’re not in the mainstream of the pres, or are they to be found in high authority positions. They will be kept out because of a very complicated lifetime system. It starts in kindergarten; the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filters which just weeds out who are too independent, and who think for them self. They are also considered to be dysfunctional to the institutions.

“S.N.C.C.”

       “Students Nonviolence Coordinating Committee”