crackerwax

It’s ironic that the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner actually include a question mark at the end of the first stanza, because it’s a question I’ve been asking for a long time. How free are US citizens now? From all I can see from the sunny shores of the 51st state it looks like ‘not very’ might be the answer to that one.

The United States of America has long held a fascination for me, almost as much as Japan in fact, but recently I have become exceptionally disillusioned by the manner in which the US carries out its international affairs. A succession of Republican administrations have presided over the gradual decline of a proud independent country, founded on the principles of free speech and opportunity for all, into a police state.

George W. Bush and his associates managing to convince the world that Saddam Hussein was in league with Osama Bin Laden was a stroke of genius, especially considering that Hussein was in charge of a highly westernised country that had all but abolished Sharia law. This is not something that Bin Laden, a militant Islamist by all accounts, would hold sway with surely?

Why does the world fall for all this shit?

Watch this video, the young man asking the questions is intimating that John Kerry colluded with Bush during the 2001 elections, essentially claiming that Kerry conceded to Bush before the votes had properly been counted, or recounted.

Did he deserve that treatment in the land of the free? As the US slides closer and closer to a police state we have to wonder how this happened.

Well I guess it happened the way it always happens, scare the shit out of your populous and then you strip them of their rights in the name of security, ensuring along the way that you whip up a frenzy of hatred against a minority in your population. Hell, it worked for Hitler. Wonder when we’ll see the Nacht der langen Messer?

Anyway, I don’t know a whole lot about this but what I do know is that I’m worried.