Whispering like some fairy tale in the mind ....
I wonder if the Department of Homeland Security -- the agency that ostensibly protects the United States from 'terrorist' activities -- could not simply skip all the intermediate steps on the way to dictatorship and arrest the entire Congress as a threat to the nation.
This, I would suggest, is not so far-fetched or paranoid-conspiracy-nut as it might appear on the surface. The definitions of "harm" and "terror" have been stretched and extended in increasingly wider ways over the recent years. Suddenly, hypothesizing idly about making a bomb falls into the same category as actually making one. (Tapped) phone conversations reveal ever-widening potential for doing the nation harm. Those who speculate that the easiest targets for a "terrorism" label may in fact have a point ... well, aren't they as much a threat as the "terrorists" themselves? Who's to say that the politicians whose dysfunction leaves the body politic gasping for air are not harming the nation?
So ... if the DHS (which has its own terrorist leanings, I concede) clapped the Congress in irons for their harmful dysfunction ... well, wouldn't that open the door to a very strong and probably singular leadership.
It seems to be the direction we're headed in anyway, so why not dispense with the preliminaries?
Up with feudalism!
In a hurry? Between fear and curiosity i tremble at the desire to see how it all ends. But i don't have a fast forward button for this movie. And i doubt i'll live long enough to see the end, whether the demise of our species and the rise of another or the elevation of our beings to some new thing. The unveiling of the secrets of the universe, all the things i want to understand. But my reality is all mind so far. Time will tell as much as it's able.
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