14-10-2013, 10:41 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:I suspect the very worst thing the government could have done was to have raided the Guardian and destroy it's laptop hard drives, not to mention arresting Greenwald's partner.
The world is changing and the old authoritarian responses are just too clumsy and counterproductive.
I don't suggest holding your breath waiting for a change in 'policy'.....they are authoritarian and clumsy and will STOMP on rights and privacy as they please until they are rendered powerless by the People.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass