Canadians’ Mental Health Records Shared with U.S. Government
September 11th, 2011Via: CBC:
More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
It is so sad that outrages like this barely register a blip now. Even with me:(
It’s an important point, ENERGYMAN, the “even with me” realization.
To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.
—They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
—Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Thank you Kevin. That was much needed. It scares me that my thoughts while traveling this weekend were to avoid town square in Portland in case there’s another “xmas tree bomber” incident on 9/11. There was no outrage, just trying to avoid the hassle of false flag ops. Comfortably numb.
It’s not too hot here. I can always jump out of the pan later, right?