Carroll Quigley, Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg (and me) on Feudalism 2.0 and the Impossibility of Protesting it

So, here are two excerpts from a March 11, 2010 article on CommonDreams.org. The first is a quote from historian Carroll Quigley and talks about, what I call, Feudalism 2.0 and how it's been in the works since the 60s (I think it goes back way further). The second excerpt comes from the authors of the CommonDreams post and they refer to all the new ways dissent can be suppressed in today's America. Hit up the original article to read the specifics on the laws allowing this kind of oppression. There's also a bunch in that piece about how students are our only hope for change--I disagree--leaving it to the kids only absolves we adults of responsibility. But I digress--please read:

Published on Thursday, March 11, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
A Challenge to Corporate Feudalism?
by Lewis Seiler & Dan Hamburg

"[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences." --Prof. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966

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First, the elites, lurking in the shadows behind a neutered government, squeeze the vast majority of citizens, workers, and students, moving their jobs overseas, foreclosing on their homes, looting their savings, stealing their hopes and dreams. When they rebel, they are gassed, tased, shot with rubber bullets, and have their nervous systems attacked with high-tech non-lethal weaponry. If they persist in their protests, they will be jailed (according to a new report cited by David DeGraw on Alternet, "a new prison opens every week somewhere in America") without habeus corpus or rights to trial. They can then be detained indefinitely in camps. They can even be disappeared.

Yes, disappeared as in murdered. It may be hard to believe but just last month it was none other than President Obama's very own Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair who acknowledged in a congressional hearing that "the U.S. may, with executive approval, deliberately target and kill U.S. citizens who are suspected of being involved in terrorism."

via commondreams.org

So, what should we call this new America? It's not a democracy since we corporations can buy candidates... Is it a technocracy? A corporatocracy?

Meh, I think I'll stick with my earlier term: corruptocracy.

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