President Bush has announced ambitious plans for the creation of a Department of Homeland Security. The new American secret police will have unprecedented power to spy on (or, as they say in Washington, "monitor") the formerly and allegedly private lives of "free" American citizens. That means you. Why the need for an American version of the KGB? The bogeyman. Or, as the all-powerful Dubya put it, “Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us.” Stop it. What, has the entire voting public turned into drooling morons? Attention: to all those who voted for Dubya as the "lesser of two … Continue reading Controlling and Taxing Americans