We are facing and information crisis. Really. The pattern of information flow I have been writing about continues to emerge. Information to the Bush administration--into parts of the government, and restricted information out. It is a direct attack on democracy and we should all be enraged. This Faux-Conservative regime is systematically using information control to dismantle the core values and structures that made this country so different from the rest of the world and so inviting to it.


Now, however, we are seeing the same sorts of treatment of our basic communication, and legal systems that we used to decry in petty dictatorships and third-rate "republics."


The Faux-Conservatives are not about conserving, but about total destruction of the liberal, democratic system that marked this country's founding. It is absolutely evident in the present economic policy of bankruptcy being openly and consciously pursued by Bush and Co. Here's how this fits with information control:


Peronet Despeignes reports in The Financial Times that a report commissioned by Paul O'Neill when he was Secretary of the Treasury projected future federal deficits at $44 TRILLION dollars. That represents 94% of the total US household assets. In other words, we'll "owe our souls to the company store." To pay it off would mean a 66% across the board tax increase, which, of course, cannot happen. The scary part is that Bush suppressed the report to ensure passage of his stupid tax plan by purposely excluding this particular report from the budget proposal.


According to Despeignes, "Laurence Kotlikoff, an expert on long-term budget accounting, alleged in a recent Boston Globe editorial that the Bush administration suppressed the research to ease passage of the tax-cut plan.


The exercise of such power, so blatantly and cynically should have us all chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" But we don't.