American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss

by Paul Craig Roberts

"Your papers please" has long been a phrase associated with Hitler's Gestapo. People without the Third Reich's stamp of approval were hauled off to Nazi Germany's version of Halliburton detention centers. Today Americans are on the verge of being asked for their papers, although probably without the "please." Thanks to a government that has turned its back on the U.S. Constitution, Americans now have an unaccountable Department of Homeland Security that is already asserting tyrannical powers over U.S. citizens and state governments. Headed by the neocon fanatic Michael Chertoff, the Orwellian-sounding Department of Homeland Security has mandated a national identity card for Americans, without which Americans may not enter airports or courthouses. There is no more need for this card than there is for a Department of Homeland Security. Neither are compatible with a free society. However, Bush, the neocons, Republicans, and Democrats do not want America to any longer be a free society, and they are taking freedom away from us just as they took away the independence of the media. Free and informed people get in the way of power-mad zealots with agendas. It is the agendas that are supreme, not the American people, who have less and less say about less and less. Read Full Article... punditman says: Read the columns of Paul Craig Roberts. They are good for the mind and for the body politic. Step Two: do something!