Reply #21: Okay, babylonsister, here's my reaction: I'm stunned, I'm scared,

[SeattleGirl]

and I'm really fucking angry!

I knew a lot of the things Scahill was talking about tonight, but he tied them together in such a way as to sharpen the picture. In addition, he filled in some blanks for me.

I also feel even more irrelevant than I was already feeling. There aren't only the haves and have-mores, there is also an entire segment of government that, while we know OF it, we don't know very much ABOUT it.

I am 3/4 of the way through re-reading "1984", which I haven't read since my senior year in high school in 1973. I see so many parallels between that book and the way things are now. Who can we trust? Who is a subversive? Who is a prole? Who is on our side? Who would rather sell us out for a pocket full of gold instead of being loyal to the Constitution? Who is our friend? Who is our enemy? I think the lines have, in many ways, become even more blurred.

I'm going to watch this again, once it's posted online, because I think there was a lot to absorb.

Holy Mother of God, but we are SOOOOO going down the wrong road.