Confiscating the kulaks’ seed corn to finance the Great Leap Forward, comrades.
America Held Hostage On The Edge Of Constant Crisis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3082962/posts
Are we merely being acclimated to the idea of incessant crisis? Are we learning to become apathetic at the edge of the chasm? Or, are we being driven to madness, mass-madness, by a concert of elitist interrogators seeking our acquiescence?
Again, the central purpose of torture is to acquire consent. Not just extorted consent, but voluntary consent. It is not enough for the torturer to force the subject to obey, he wants the subject to EMBRACE his servitude. To gladly abandon all hope. To see his captor as his only salvation.