Has anyone read this? I just finished it and all I can say is, wow.
For those who aren't familiar: this book is a scathing criticism of the US federal government emphasizing the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma city bombing, as well as Waco, with forays into discusions of the war on drugs, agri-business and the destruction of family farms and uptight notions of sexual morality. The main message is that the US federal government is waging war against its own citizens.
I didn't need this book to tell me that the war on drugs is a gross miscarriage of justice, but I was horrified by the following description of a drug raid that took place in 1992 in Everett, WA in which a woman was shot.
This book made me incredibly angry. Does anyone want to discuss Vidal's criticisms of our government?
For those who aren't familiar: this book is a scathing criticism of the US federal government emphasizing the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma city bombing, as well as Waco, with forays into discusions of the war on drugs, agri-business and the destruction of family farms and uptight notions of sexual morality. The main message is that the US federal government is waging war against its own citizens.
I didn't need this book to tell me that the war on drugs is a gross miscarriage of justice, but I was horrified by the following description of a drug raid that took place in 1992 in Everett, WA in which a woman was shot.
Quote:
| ...Robin Pratt's last moments. She was with her sis year old daughter and five year old niece when the police broke in. As the bravest storm trooper, named Aston, approached her, gun drawn...she started to crouch onto her knees. She looked up at Aston and said 'please don't hurt my children...'Aston had his gun pointed at her and fired, shooting her in the neck. |
: It is overpowering to have to live here at the same time...I found it so much easier to think about our political system and messes when I didn't have to live here hearing all the general obfuscatory crap that crosses my path every day.
