Wikileaks and Bradley Manning supporters being harassed

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Back in the good old days, it was only crazy old spies like James Jesus Angleton who had to worry about entering the "wilderness of mirrors" when it came to fathoming government policy.  Now, everyone can suffer the same fate!

Looking back on things, Americans (and Brits) seem to grow weary of the burden of freedom about twice a century.

For example, the Wilson administration, the McCarthy era, and the present.

[LMNO]

It's a damn shame that "Kafkaesque" has become such a cliche that it doesn't convey the sense of horror I feel every time I hear the words "bag check!"

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Done. 

That's ripped off from the Warhammer 40K Guardsman's Handbook.

 

Other gems:

"A closed mind gathers no heresies."

"An open mind is like a fortress unguarded."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's a damn shame that "Kafkaesque" has become such a cliche that it doesn't convey the sense of horror I feel every time I hear the words "bag check!"

Franz Kafka's most pessimistic nightmares seem to have turned out to be idiotically optimistic.

[Requia ☣]

Oh I've read it.  I'm just alternating in between laughing and crying that my government is being accurately described by quotes from 40k books.

[Cain]

Back in the good old days, it was only crazy old spies like James Jesus Angleton who had to worry about entering the "wilderness of mirrors" when it came to fathoming government policy.  Now, everyone can suffer the same fate!

Looking back on things, Americans (and Brits) seem to grow weary of the burden of freedom about twice a century.

For example, the Wilson administration, the McCarthy era, and the present.

We were pretty good about Communists, mostly.  Hoover kept making threats to MI5, but since MI5 actually caught real Soviet spies fairly often (excluding the Cambridge Five and Philby in particular) he couldn't apply much pressure.

In the colonies, on the other hand...not so much fun.  Or Northern Ireland, for that matter.  Thank God the PIRA declared a ceasefire, or else the hawks in government probably would have put indefinite detention without charge on the lawbooks for all eternity.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Back in the good old days, it was only crazy old spies like James Jesus Angleton who had to worry about entering the "wilderness of mirrors" when it came to fathoming government policy.  Now, everyone can suffer the same fate!

Looking back on things, Americans (and Brits) seem to grow weary of the burden of freedom about twice a century.

For example, the Wilson administration, the McCarthy era, and the present.

We were pretty good about Communists, mostly.  Hoover kept making threats to MI5, but since MI5 actually caught real Soviet spies fairly often (excluding the Cambridge Five and Philby in particular) he couldn't apply much pressure.

In the colonies, on the other hand...not so much fun.  Or Northern Ireland, for that matter.  Thank God the PIRA declared a ceasefire, or else the hawks in government probably would have put indefinite detention without charge on the lawbooks for all eternity.

Britain has never been sure if it wants to be fascist or not.

And, hell, you guys outlawed the Marquis De Sade until just a few years ago, and that's basically just soft core porn.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh I've read it.  I'm just alternating in between laughing and crying that my government is being accurately described by quotes from 40k books.

[Cain]

Back in the good old days, it was only crazy old spies like James Jesus Angleton who had to worry about entering the "wilderness of mirrors" when it came to fathoming government policy.  Now, everyone can suffer the same fate!

Looking back on things, Americans (and Brits) seem to grow weary of the burden of freedom about twice a century.

For example, the Wilson administration, the McCarthy era, and the present.

We were pretty good about Communists, mostly.  Hoover kept making threats to MI5, but since MI5 actually caught real Soviet spies fairly often (excluding the Cambridge Five and Philby in particular) he couldn't apply much pressure.

In the colonies, on the other hand...not so much fun.  Or Northern Ireland, for that matter.  Thank God the PIRA declared a ceasefire, or else the hawks in government probably would have put indefinite detention without charge on the lawbooks for all eternity.

Britain has never been sure if it wants to be fascist or not.

And, hell, you guys outlawed the Marquis De Sade until just a few years ago, and that's basically just soft core porn.

Well, fascism is a foreign ideology.  I'm not sure the Daily Mail, Sun and Express would approve of foreign ideologies, coming over here and taking hardworking British ideologies' jobs.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Back in the good old days, it was only crazy old spies like James Jesus Angleton who had to worry about entering the "wilderness of mirrors" when it came to fathoming government policy.  Now, everyone can suffer the same fate!

Looking back on things, Americans (and Brits) seem to grow weary of the burden of freedom about twice a century.

For example, the Wilson administration, the McCarthy era, and the present.

We were pretty good about Communists, mostly.  Hoover kept making threats to MI5, but since MI5 actually caught real Soviet spies fairly often (excluding the Cambridge Five and Philby in particular) he couldn't apply much pressure.

In the colonies, on the other hand...not so much fun.  Or Northern Ireland, for that matter.  Thank God the PIRA declared a ceasefire, or else the hawks in government probably would have put indefinite detention without charge on the lawbooks for all eternity.

Britain has never been sure if it wants to be fascist or not.

And, hell, you guys outlawed the Marquis De Sade until just a few years ago, and that's basically just soft core porn.

Well, fascism is a foreign ideology.  I'm not sure the Daily Mail, Sun and Express would approve of foreign ideologies, coming over here and taking hardworking British ideologies' jobs.

Oh, I think they'd make an exception.   

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11726740

relevant?

[Cain]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11726740

relevant?

Because, of course, TheyWorkForYou and Hansard are now supporting terrorism by listing what MPs actually say and vote on.  UNGGGGH!

[the last yatto]

Surprising, no.

Indeed feds never treated wikileads as valid press,
and the talking heads were just short of calling them enemy combatants

[Requia ☣]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11726740

relevant?

Because, of course, TheyWorkForYou and Hansard are now supporting terrorism by listing what MPs actually say and vote on.  UNGGGGH!

Its a very short step from here to making voting terrorism.

America and Britain are apparently racing to see who can get to full blown despotism first.