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Any idea who Charles R. Black Jr. really is? You know, John McCain’s top advisor? He made the news recently in a June interview with Fortune magazine by saying that a terror attack would be “a big advantage” for McCain. Check out his ties to the likes of Jesse Helm (and his frothing racism), Karl Rove, Tom DeLay, Reagan, and both Bushes as well as the lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller and Phillip Morris. He’s quite a piece of work, and you can see all his nauseating background on Sourcewatch.

Surely by now you know that Black and his ilk don’t give a damn about America. These malignancies in human skin have no interest in the well-being of the citizenry. Their solitary agenda is to gobble absolute power on a time table. The majority of Americans are merely angry beasts they want removed from their path.

While they quietly and slowly strip us of our freedoms and rights and construct reality for us, we’re out slurping ribs and brews. We’re all about image and consumption, getting big-screen TV and the bigger house or we’re clawing each other’s eyes out down here below.

Stop seeing this army of little tyrants through a predictive lens. They mean to oppress us. They are beyond patriotism, beyond nationalism, beyond right and left, beyond things we can even name as we struggle to pull our heads out of the ass of the 20th century. These horrid little men mean to intimidate us by spending our tax dollars on big mean technology to keep us intimidated. To wit: The 2004 conventions look almost democratic compared to the wave of what we face this summer and beyond. The following quote from Raw Story:

Weapons such as the sonic ray gun, which emits a head-splitting frequency and deafens large groups of people. Also rumored for the conventions is the goo gun — which shoots a gel that can coat and wrap people whole, or stop a moving vehicle in its path — and a microwave pulse emitter — a radio frequency device that makes one’s skin feel it is on fire, previously deployed in the streets of Baghdad, Iraq.

Word is that these, and perhaps other “top secret” sci-fi weapons are slated to be deployed as crowd control at both nominating conventions this summer. Who will pay for these weapons? You, of course. Congress has approved $100 million to pay for security expenses–$50 million per convention.

Below you can read the partial transcript of CNN’s Ed Lavendera’s interview with anti-terrorism consultant Bob Newhart on July 7 CNN’s American Morning:

ROBERTS: Pepper ball rifles, goo guns, sonic rays. some are wild rumors but some may not be. some may protect our political convention this year. Ed Lavandera in Denver where the democrats will meet and he’s got more.

LAVENDERA: To prepare for this summer’s political conventions, Congress is giving the host cities, Denver and St. Paul, Minnesota, $50 million each to pay for security expenses. But what exactly that money is being spent on is top secret here in denver.

NEWMAN: $25 million buys a lot of very interesting things.

LAVENDERA: Bob Newman is an anti-terrorism consultant, helping Denver companies prepare for the Democratic convention. He’s anxious to see what kind of crowd control weaponry authorities will deploy for the convention.

NEWMAN: There are also crazy rumors going around.

LAVENDERA: City officials and the police department won’t talk about most of the weapons and equipment they’re buying.

FLEENER: This is your pepper rounds.

LAVENDERA: But confirmed one report several hundred thousands of high powered pepper ball rifles will be used to disperse crowds.

FLEENER: When that hits, the ball breaks, powder expels. the same reaction as pepper spray. Except it’s powder.

LAVENDERA: Congressional testimony revealed there will be specialized gas detection equipment and biohazard equipment. Then there are the science fiction-like weapons that may or may not be part of the arsenal, like the goo gun.

SECURITY CONSULTANT: It shoots a rubbery gelatin mass when it strikes the body and comes out in a stream it wraps around limbs and the torso and the person can’t move.

LAVENDERA: It can make a Humvee have spin in place. Then there are the weapons that would make unruly crowds run for cover like a sonic ray gun, a device which emits an ear piercing sound and a microwave device that can be focused on an area and can make you feel like your skin is on fire. The ACLU has sued the city of Denver to find out if these weapons are in the arsenal.

SILVERSTEIN: Instead of asking the public, “How come you want to know?” Maybe the question should posed to the government, “Why are you interested in keeping this secret?”

NEWMAN: Rational people are not concerned. Those concerned are the ones causing problems.

LAVENDERA: In Minnesota where republicans are holding their convention, the ACLU says it’s trying to find out how security money is being spent but law enforcement agencies insist these weapons should be kept secret so they have the upper hand in keeping the convention safe.

Lovely, isn’t it? What’s really behind this decision sanctioned both by Congress and by both political candidates to use science-fiction-style weapons against American citizens? How many people will begin to seek asylum elsewhere as the nation implodes into this black hole of fascism? Has the U.S. fantasyland that’s been crammed down your throat all your life begun to unravel for you yet?

Now more than ever it’s our responsibility to hold Obama’s feet to the fire and keep him honest. It’s our responsibility to make him continue his course toward justice and humanity rather than to allow him to drift back to the mushy center where Kerry wallowed.