"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
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Surveillance cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your emails and text messages and monitoring your spending, mandatory health care, sugary soda bans, anti-bullying laws, zero tolerance policies, political correctness: these are all outward signs of a government - i.e., a societal elite - that believes it knows what is best for you and can do a better job of managing your life than you can.
This is tyranny disguised as "the better good." Indeed, as I document in my book
A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, this is the tyranny of the Nanny State: marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and inflicted on all those who do not belong to the elite ruling class that gets to call the shots. Thus, this explains the recent rash of parents getting charged with negligence and arrested for leaving their kids alone for any amount of time, whether at a park, in a store, in a car, or in their front yard - another sign of what C.S. Lewis referred to as tyranny exercised by "omnipotent moral busybodies."
For example, working mom Debra Harrell was arrested, spent 17 days in jail, lost custody of her daughter, and if convicted, could spend up to 10 years in jail all because she let her 9-year-old daughter play alone at a nearby park. Single mother Shanesha Taylor, unemployed and essentially homeless, was arrested for leaving her kids in her car during a 40-minute job interview.
For the so-called "crime" of allowing her 7-year-old son to visit a neighborhood playground located a half mile from their house, Nicole Gainey was interrogated, arrested and handcuffed in front of her son, and transported to the local jail where she was physically searched, fingerprinted, photographed and held for seven hours and then forced to pay almost $4,000 in bond in order to return to her family. Gainey now faces a third-degree criminal felony charge that carries with it a fine of up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail.
Comment: Iraq's first democratically-elected leader... has just been deposed in yet another US coup d'etat!
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Hollywood producers would reject the script for being too fantastical.
But there you have it.
The NeoCons decided they didn't like the way Iraq was partnering with Russia and Iran, so they moved some of their jihadists from Syria into Iraq to cause bloody mayhem.
Meanwhile America's biggest war whores are baying for yet another round of 'shock and awe' in Iraq...