Thanks to Voices for Global Justice and Ken McDermott Roe
The Bush Cheney Republican era has been one of gangster wars, unrestrained corporate greed and criminality, surveillance, repression, lies and torture - all cheered on by a media dominated by bellicose bullies. Some characterize this as aberrant, but it is aberrant only in its excess - it is the ultimate expression of a state based on hierarchies of dominance, that worships competition and power - from the international to the personal. It's institutions break people to its yoke from childhood; its rulers give lip service to democracy but despise it in fact . .From questions of war and peace to schoolyard bullies - the template is the same