jeremy voas' spun dizzy by dubya at smirkingchimp.com is an excellent critique of the appalling way dissent has been suppressed in the u.s. because the politicians are spine-free and the news media are capitalist lap-dogs.



voas compares the vilification of academics and artists who disagree with child-killer bush's policies to mao's cultural revolution. he's spot-on correct.



the same thing's happening here in the u.k. - we don't get to see the real size of anti-government demonstrations because the web-cams that would show them are 'under maintenance'; the press and t.v. news collude with bliar's spin-doctors to corrupt all the 'information' we're given; traffic-control systems are perverted into a means of personal surveillance; public resources are sold to corporate thieves who asset-strip them and leave us with the bare skeletons or charge us a fortune for what used to be free, public services; dissent is 'contained' by contant vilification by the press of dissenters rather than reasoned argument; politicians lie without turning a hair; politicians accept bribes on a huge scale (usually called 'donations to the party').



it's time for some serious civil disobedience in this country to bring down the appalling, lying, child-killing bliar and his bunch of sychophantic, power-crazed, capitalist pig-dogs in the cabinet (and much of parliament).