An
Unenviable Situation is cynical about America:
Liberals who get upset over the the possibilities of internment camps and other restrictions do not
understand their own history, or the history of their country. It makes no practical sense for an
empire in crisis to respect the civil liberties of its citizens as much as this one has. We have a
way of life based upon the denial of such liberties for others. Democracy did not make us rich,
capitalism did. Or rather what made us rich was an internal system of capitalist and multi-ethnic
democracy which resulted, lo and behold, in a skill at domination and the greed that required it.
But there is no reason to assume that after years of abuse, those who have suffered under us- or
more specifically under our proxies- will follow the same rules we do.