It is easier to be apathetic and trust the Government. That way people can have more time to not care, to watch 24 and go to soccer games. If people fear changes in the status quo, then they will tolerate quite a bit of injustice and feign ignorance instead of thinking about serious issues.

Cheney is just a symptom. The problem is the perverted cult of secrecy that surround the elites. They are taught (and have been taught for many many years) to believe that secrecy is power. That is what Freemasonry is all about, the "secret" knowledge that the designer of Solomon's Temple had regarding geometric relations and how to derive aesthetically pleasing angles and proportions like the golden ratio. Three of the architect's workers killed him because he would not give up this knowledge. His death made him "free" because he refused to give up knowledge to some thugs.

There are many secret, and not so secret (but still with secrets of course) societies with members who are powerful, entrenched pillars of the establishment. I don't think it a coincidence that Bush supposedly tapped Cheney at Bohemian Grove. The blue bloods are bred to be secretive early in life, at least to their ivy league cult frats (like Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key), but maybe even earlier still, and then graduating to the big boy cult frats (e.g. Bohemian Grove). Until these societies and their ilk are exposed and the body politic cleansed of their power and influence (to be replaced by, I don't know, the will of the people?) secrecy will continue to be a problem. Not only for the people but for the politicians that are socially blackmailed through the perverted "rituals" and whatnot that these stupid groups come up with (e.g. "You tell anyone about this mock human sacrifice to the Owl statue and I'll tell your congregation" kind of stuff).

Secrecy is so highly correlated with power and success in the minds of our elite masters that it flows over into everything else, even when it isn't the most appropriate method, like intelligence gathering. It also gives blank checks and blind eyes to black ops. Robert D. Steele of www.oss.net claims to have developed a system of intelligence gathering that is completely open source and is leaps and bounds ahead of DHS, which is essentially just another layer of bureaucracy to muck of the works and for cronies to promote themselves into. When it comes to intelligence and nonfiction, Robert D. Steele is serious business, just ask amazon.com.

Modern American Diplomacy = Do what we say and not as we do or there will be an "intervention" using coercion and force.

Good interview, but the last bit, "two aircraft carriers pointing missiles, and submarines, in their backyard" is not what comes to my mind when I think about diplomacy.

Is sending abortion rights "back to the states" really the worst thing that can happen if Roe v Wade is overturned? Couldn't a vehemently anti-choice Court go beyond this and ban abortion entirely by applying the "compelling state interest" used to regulate third trimester abortions to the entire pregnancy?

I honestly don't know the answer to this, so someone please enlighten me.

Washington would have to take time away from its busy schedule and learn the law before answering this question, and we can't have that. Especially since the establishment loves abortion.

Maybe we support the dictators because eventually they will die and then democracy can take over and flourish! They just need to tough it out until the bad guys croak, and then the good guys can rise up and take control. Just look at Iraq.

I said it yesterday and I'll say it again.... all this drama would stop in an instant if Islamic militants would accept Israel and each other.

Or, you know, the US could accept the government elected by the Palestinian people and stop only supporting sycophantic Abbas because he plays ball with the west. If only those damned Palestinians would vote for the puppets that the US and Israel want them to vote for and show the world a true example of "democracy in action" (of course I wouldn't call it a vote so much as a quiz with one right answer).

Then all of this drama would stop and this whole thing would be solved. Why can't those silly Muslims learn and conform to the war machine's definition of "regional stability"? Don't they know that we support the torturous brutal regimes that oppress them in order to spread democracy to them, for their own good?

We cannot continue to support murderous foreign policies that simply benefit us economically"

Welcome to the neoliberal politics of globalization. Maybe someone should make a general rule of thumb that "neo" can only be used positively in the Matrix Trilogy and that anything using neo as a combining form should be brought to public light, thoroughly questioned, and allowed as an accepted body politic only after much scrutiny.