Yes our government officials are hostile and mean, but they are not uncaring of outcomes, they care about outcomes greatly, therefore, they are not Sociopathic.

Yes it is easy to arrest anyone. But, to an extent everyone is complicit in this. We allow it because of our own fears. We voted for it in many cases and we do not stand up and go to jail in support of our beliefs. We still want desperately to believe we as an individual can make a difference. After all isn’t that what we were brainwashed in school to believe?

Would you agree the federal government is currently sociopath in its behavior? I point to various branches; the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, TSA… that have committed open, hostile acts against citizens of this country and blatantly hideous acts against the citizens on foreign soil. They commit these acts without feelings of remorse, guilt or moral conscience. Have they apologized for Guantanamo, for depleted uranium weapons, for the brutal confinement of Bradly Manning? I point to officers of the law who get away with openly brutal acts through the sanctions of the courts and the support of fellow officers.

Are these hostile acts the subjects of candidates running for office, and are they the priority of eligible voters? No. The issues are fair tax, legal discrimination and gun control. The very fact that Americans could entertain the thought that discrimination against anyone is okay proves how close we are stepping to the creation of a sociopath society. That they have not put legalized brutality on the top of the agenda shows how much they have accepted that our legal system has the right to be brutal.

Will, that is exactly the point i am trying to make. It is entirely too easy for law enforcement to arrest anyone they please; especially for assault on an officer, which is a felony charge. One illusion i really hate to point out is that a person can be “invisible”. Actually, the fewer means they have of tracking you, i.e., taking a bus instead of driving, self-employed or working for a small business, not receiving any government subsidies, loans, grants or social services, the more you fall under their radar. Even intelligence is suspect. I have heard more than once by people with absolutely clean records that a policeman had informed them, “I don’t believe you’re not breaking the law. You’re just too smart to get caught.” This is the atmosphere we have to deal with today. We are all guilty in the eyes of the law. It’s just a matter of when they want to deal with us. Not if- but when.

“Power accedes nothing without a demand”, said Frederick Douglass. He was right in the 1860′s, and he’s right today.

Having followed the Kuala Lumpur trial rather closely, I think it’s safe to say that this wasn’t just a play by a political party; it’s a genuine attempt to invoke international law to rein-in the American Empire.

It won’t happen – because those in power aren’t going to listen to this ‘demand’ until/unless it’s enforced with public hangings and plenty of blood.

I keep saying this – and it’s also true: You are either a rebel, or a slave.

Choose well….

When we’re all ‘inside’, we’ll know. Something tells me that unless we either find the exits or a way to make ourselves invisible, that time’s not far off….

The notion of the “rule of law” is a joke because some one will always be above the “law” (i.e. the people who make, enforce and interpret them)…

This mode of living that most people in the West have today is unsustainable – when Peak Oil hits modern society as we know it ends…

I don’t see any quick gathering of forces to indict Bush and sweep him into the arms of justice, but i think i see a slowly changing global opinion on what can be done and the degree of power illustrated in numbers to do it. A few precedents come to mind… Russia throws its swindling billionaire in jail, Iceland retaliates against its Icesave bankruptcy by throwing their culprits in jail, Goldman Sacs shakes down a few leading executives and threatens them with jail.. Well, that’s a limp wrist gesture, but you get the picture.

Obama has no balls. He’s flopped around his entire term,promising an end to atrocities like Guantanamo Bay, while holding a clown’s court for treason, proposing green energy while supporting gas frakking and off-shore drilling, and now, in one last desperate fling to win back the liberals, he says he supports the gay community. That should not be a welcoming statement for the gays since it comes from the man with forked tongue.

Most likely, America has no balls, either. The vast majority still prefers to take a shot at becoming an American Idol than try to figure out what the hell is wrong with this country and divert the cash for make-up and crew into an effort to make improvements. The spotlight is the American dream, nothing more.