j. edgar hoover is smiling

my buddy and i email news stories back and forth and chat about them. he sent me this yesterday-

court orders youtube to turn over video logs

and it dovetails with what my suspicions have been all along- communism is alive and well in new america. i was born in the 1970’s and i grew up in the 1980’s. in fact, the berlin wall fell the year i graduated high school. and we all cheered. we cheered when that little man stood up to the tank in tianamen square in china- because freedom couldn’t be stopped or silenced. so, i guess i am in a quandary as to what happened in the 20 or so years since the fall of communism- and why it is exactly that americans are so very willing to embrace that ideology.

because let’s face it- the fascist-communist corporate oligarchy we have running our country- isn’t a representative democracy. the constitution and all that we held dear- gone. you can’t tell me that a country that behaves as we do- is free. we got our torture techniques from china and our nsa has spied on us for decades in ways that would make the kgb blush. the 20th century saw the fall of communism in one incarnation and the 21st century is seeing world totalitarianism rise again. and it only stands to reason- america has many, many natural resources. whoever controls them- well, pretty much survives the longest.