The Overnight Metamorphosis of America into Tyranny

Not my post, but it is my opinion.  Read all about it.

Felons for Chemical Control

“Hank Fox has brought a significant problem to my attention, one that I’ve addressed before: one of the consequences of growing American cowardice and these trumped-up Wars on Terror and Drugs (let’s call them what they are: a War on Civil Liberties) is that science and science education are collateral damage.”  Read the rest of the post.  There’s also a good debate about gun vs. chemical control in the comments.

The US Paramilitary

We now have a massive standing military in the middle East, and an almost equally as large paramilitary in the same place.  When the revolution or civil war occurs, you’ll have to watch out for US Government and Blackwater troops.

Global Terrorism Database

“The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2004). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on international as well as domestic terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes almost 80,000 cases. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and — when identifiable — the identity of the perpetrator.The START Center is making the GTD available to government policy makers and academics in an effort to increase understanding of terrorist violence so that it can be more readily defeated.”

Meet the new Congress…

…same as the old Congress.  Ugh.  I should just stop paying attention to the government and get back to building a compound to fight off the infected hordes when they arrive at my door looking for help.

Don’t We Have a Constitution, Not a King?

This article is great. I know of a few people who have been asking the same thing. It comes up in dinner conversations with the family now.

“Bush has issued a directive that would place all governmental powers in his hands in the case of a catastrophic emergency. If a terrorist attack happens before the 2008 election, could Bush and Cheney use this to avoid relinquishing power to a successor administration?”