Friday, July 27, 2007

You Have No Rights -- in Bush's America


Lest anyone think for a moment that you have to be Michael Moore, or Muslim, before 'Bush's Government' will crack down on your own personal freedom march, here's news of a book that strongly suggests otherwise.

You Have No Rights
Stories of America in an Age of Repression

I’m very liberal and sometimes my friends say I’m giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up. — MARC SCHULTZ, REPORTED TO THE FBI FOR READING AN ARTICLE CALLED "WEAPONS OF MASS STUPIDITY: FOX NEWS HITS A NEW LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR"

In West Virginia, Renee Jensen put up a yard sign saying “Mr. Bush: You’re Fired.” She’s questioned by the Secret Service. In Alabama, Lynne Gobbell put a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on her car. She’s fired from her job. In Vermont, Tom Treece had his high school students write essays and make posters either defending or criticizing the Iraq War. After midnight, the police entered his classroom and took photos of the student artwork.

In this hard-to-put-down book, Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, shows that post–9/11 America has entered a repressive age. Through dozens of engrossing and disturbing individual stories, You Have No Rights makes clear that America is now a country that is both less safe and less free.