I recently gave public testimony to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission's Human Subjects Subcommittee. I hope they will act to help curb and expose the abuses that have been taking place. For the time being, though, the politics of covert torture are still in place in the U.S.

The whole system is turned upside-down. First, citizens are subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Then they are investigated and tortured in search of any ``wrongdoing.'' They are placed under surveillance, and spies freely spread information and disinformation about them -- even information gathered by the most sophisticated and violative methods or under torture. If the person actually protests publicly, ``trial'' proceeds in the media and rumor mill. Innuendo and supposedly damning codewords are repeated with the frequency required to convince the public of the ``defendant's'' guilt -- at least of being a bad person who deserved the sentence originally carried out against him. People inside the secret elite are given personalized propaganda ``slideshows,'' which the defendant is not allowed to see, that highlight what a bad person he is. I used to complain that I was not even given a show trial, but now I see that this is how the United States conducts its show trials.

This is the mockery of justice that passes for rule-of-law in the U.S. today. It is based on black bag jobs, secret surveillance, and often based on torture and violations of citizens' minds. This is liberally peppered with misinformation and lies. A house of cards with a foundation in the work of Josef Mengele and various secret police organizations. The sad thing is how many Americans buy it, or will act as apologists for it.

These are the adults in our society, distinguished citizens. Who does it reflect on, the individuals who get put down, or the society and government that operate in this manner? One of the worst parts of my personal torture, at first, was the cognitive dissonance of knowing my own countrymen were purposely inflicting these horrible abuses on me for seemingly no reason at all -- except perhaps that I had the audacity to actually exercise my free speech ``rights.'' [Part of the torture is the insinuation of various inane reasons and rationalizations for why it happened.] I now know that a significant portion of Americans are Nazis in all but the most outward trappings.

This realization, though sickening, is liberating in a way. For example, I have felt much better after writing and posting State of the Union. Now, whenever another Goebbels-style propaganda wedge is launched I can typically think: ``I already wrote about that.'' When slurs or attacks are carried out, I know it is just a goon squad doing its ``work.'' Thugs will be thugs, and will act as thugs. They can harass you, torture you, slander you, even set you up, but they have no more legitimacy than the strong-arming goon squad of a criminal syndicate.

The victims of mind control and other secret experimentation are not going to go away. Nor are the many other people victimized by the government they trusted and often risked their lives for. Some may finally decide they need to leave ``the land of the free and the home of the brave'' to have any sort of freedom at all. (I always remember that Einstein eventually had to flee the Nazis. Not being Einstein, there is the danger of waiting too long...) A government which summarily tortures and enslaves its own citizens does not have a leg to stand on with regard to legitimacy or human rights.

Americans love to elevate martyrs to fight for everyone's rights. Then everyone can snicker at the martyr behind his or her back, while risking nothing and maybe retaining some fundamental rights if the martyr is successful. But people who will not fight for their basic rights -- which are the same as the rights of the least among us -- do not deserve them. The sad thing is the children and young people, who truly deserve to live in the free nation that our orators always talk about. But then you can watch our culture slowly grinding these young people into hateful shits, disillusioned idealists, oblivious ditzes, and so forth.

WATCH HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS! How the selfish inner circles play the public for suckers and fools while enriching themselves and shoring up their own power. How even potential challenges to that power are suppressed with violence, usually taxpayer-funded violence. More than a reign of terror, we are living through a reign of stupidity. This stupidity is indoctrinated and inculcated with propaganda campaigns to support the decreed policies and accompanying repression -- as well as to do damage control when the thugs get out of control.

This is not the sort of thing people enjoy hearing, or that I enjoy writing about. But I write what I see, and its importance is clear. I know many others have seen it happening too.