Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net

Lieberman's Bill to Kick Off Internment Camps -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net: The main problem with giving free reign to one's dictatorial leanings in a democracy is the whole 'citizen's rights' and 'Rights of Man' thing. How is any self-aggrandizing despot to lord it over the masses, and watch them squirm and suffer and beg, when everyone seems convinced that there are not only democratic and legal rights but also natural 'inalienable' rights that come with just being a human being? Ideas that everyone is 'created equal' and has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness etc. can cause a lot of problems for the average authoritarian. Naturally then, in any democracy, all those rights would have to be removed before any oligarchy could transform citizens into subjects, and they'd have to be removed under the cloak of 'protecting' the very rights that were slated for extinction. A tall order indeed, but there are ways to do it. One tried and tested way is to create a foreign or external threat from which the people of a democracy must be protected. All sorts of draconian laws that subvert civil rights can be passed to combat this 'threat', and if the 'threat' can then be made internal or domestic, and suspicion of 'siding with enemy' cast over the citizens, you're well on your way to banishing those pesky legal and natural rights.
Strangely enough, that seems to be what has been happening in Western democracies over the past 10 years. Take the USA for example. That there is a power-hungry elite in control of the USA should, by now, be obvious to anyone with a few firing neurons. George 'Dubya' Bush made no secret of his desire to be dictator, and over the past few years Obama has made several references to wanting to "bypass congress" and just "change the laws on my own". As for Congress and the Senate, their endorsement of legislation like the USA PATRIOT Act and the recent 'Indefinite Detention bill' within the NDAA, make it obvious that they are only too happy to go along with the transformation of America into a fully-fledged police state at home, and an ever-expanding empire abroad. And needless to say, America's biggest multinational corporations (most of which are war profiteers 'military contractors') are reaping huge profits from providing the infrastructure necessary for just such a police state. That the Indefinite Detention bill is a savage attack on the few remaining civil rights in the USA is made obvious when we realise that even the New York Times, in an editorial on December 16th 2011, dared to spell it out when they said that the bill contains "terrible new measures that will make indefinite detention and military trials a permanent part of American law." On the other hand, they could just be sayin' stuff like that to convince people that the laws can't be changed back once the step is taken to remove human rights.