Americans Held Captive to Lies, Losing Freedom

Another must-read article by Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official. Just another conservative you will never hear quoted on talk radio or the news networks.

clipped from www.counterpunch.org The Great American Lock-Up We Are All Prisoners Now All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running roughshod over the Constitution, by a bought and paid for media that serves as propagandists for a regime of war criminals, and by a public who have forsaken their Founding Fathers. Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created by the hoax of "terrorism." It has turned out that headline terrorist events since 9/11 have been orchestrated by the US government. For example, the alleged terrorist plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was the brainchild of a FBI agent who searched out a few disaffected people to give lip service to the plot devised by the FBI agent. He arrested his victims, whose trial ended in acquittal and mistrial. Freedom and democracy in America have been reduced to no-fly lists, spying