May 20, 2008 – 12:26 am by John

That’s the point we’re coming to under this national-security state in 21st-century America. Republicans and Democrats and the people who continue to support them like a battered wife who won’t leave her abusive husband are to blame. Karen De Coster on the LRC blag:

If you are going to St. Paul for the GOP convention, don’t wear your Teva sandals, have hair like a hippie, flash a peace sign, or hang out with the vegans. The feds are planting snitches and will brand dissenters as ‘terrorist groups or organizations.’ What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

How much longer is it going to be before this totalitarian fascism is undoable except by bloody, catastrophic revolution? How much more are Republican and Democratic voters going to take? What’s it going to take for them to realize voting for new and better politicians is never, ever going to solve anything?

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