And just to make sure everyone participates in this mandatory exercise of “freedom,”

And just to make sure everyone participates in this mandatory exercise of “freedom,” on election day the

entire country is going on lockdown: closed borders, a lengthened curfew, and “about 300,000 MBTi and

multinational troops” on the streets “providing security” — and also no doubt checking to see who votes and

who doesn’t. Making abstention just as risky as voting is bound to increase turnout.

The Senate Democrats are holding up the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice: no, nix that — Senator Robert Byrd is

holding up the confirmation vote until Thursday on the magnificently combative grounds, as explained by the

Senator’s spokesman, that

“Senator Byrd and others believe that the Senate’s advice-and-consent Constitutional responsibilities are not

a rubber stamp.”

This is a slap in the face to one of the core principles of red-state fascism: unanimity. The lies that sustain

this regime — the lies that led us into war, and are leading us into another — are so fragile that a loud

defiant voice could shatter them. That’s why the neocons defame all dissenters as “anti-American.”