pox americana

In our name, the government has brought down a pall of repression over society.  The President’s spokesperson warns people to “watch what they say.”  Dissident artists, intellectuals, and professors find their views distorted, attacked, and suppressed.  The so-called Patriot Act — along with a host of similar measures on the state level — gives police sweeping new powers of search and seizure, supervised if at all by secret proceedings before secret courts.