Reloaded: This Is How The End Of Democracy Is Hastened

By Mentarch December 14, 2010 #{URL}, #abuse of power, #authoritarianism, #civil rights, #constitution, #corporatocracy, #democracy, #domestic spying, #free speech, #mainstream media, #security, #wikileaks

First, the mainstream/corporate media largely abdicates its raison d’être, i.e. reporting facts, the truth and keeping checks on the Powers-That-Be.

Second, corporations collude with politicians not only to make policy, but to facilitate increased surveillance of citizens (typically without warrants), in addition to being accomplices in stifling free speech (including on the internet).

And t…