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Monday, January 31, 2005
While President Bush and the Pentagon continue their march around the world establishing “democracy” through military invasions and occupations, Americans would be wise to focus on democracy at home.
For example, yesterday’s New York Times reports that the CIA, which consists of secret, unelected bureaucrats whose power is virtually omnipotent, is refusing to comply with a congressional law mandating the disclosure of CIA partnerships with Nazi officials after the end of World War II.
Perhaps I have a mistaken view of democracy, but isn’t it supposed to be the people, through their elected representatives, who decide whether U.S. agency files are going to be opened for inspection by the American people? Why should CIA officials, none of whom ever faced election by the American people, have the power to tell the people’s elected representatives, “Buzz off if you know what’s good for you.”
Moreover, how could disclosure of the full extent of the CIA-Nazi partnership jeopardize the ...
Friday, December 31, 2004
In today’s FFF Email Update, we link to an interesting article in the drug-war section entitled “A Taste of the System” which details one of the perverse consequences of the “war on terrorism” and the “war on drugs.” John Perry Barlow, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, checked his luggage for a flight. After being seated, the feds came onto the plane and ordered him off the plane, claiming that they had searched his luggage for bombs and, in the process, discovered a small quantity of drugs. They’ve now charged him with illegal drug possession.
To Barlow’s credit, he’s fighting the feds on the legality of the search rather than perform the customary “Oh, I’m so sorry; please forgive me, let me rat on others for you” that the feds expect drug-war victims to feel and express.
Here’s a Washington Post ...
