- Contrary to what Bush continues to claim, neither he
nor the congress or the courts are the Deciders we the people hold
the ultimate power, over who decides what in the United States! The chess
pieces on the board of government are only appointed or elected officials,
and so long as they fulfill the needs and desires of the citizens in this
land, they serve us: When that changes drastically as it has since the
last elections, then consequences must follow.
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- The ship of state has become a rusting and sinking luxury
vessel riddled with holes: rudderless and captain-less we now float on
a sea of corruption and lies. The turbulent waters where that ship is adrift
had their corrupt beginnings in the fifty years of war against the Palestinians
in the Middle East. The failure by this government to hold Israel accountable
for her crimes against those people, and now against the entire Arab world;
is the source that generates so much of the hatred and death both 'over
there' and 'over here.' (1)
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- Congress has more than played a part in keeping these
duplicitous policies in force. Having voted, in this first month for the
National I.D. Card that restricts the travel, the privacy and the freedom
of all Americans: and for giving Social Security to people- without-papers,
while striking down a requirement that would have made English the national
language of this country-this is tantamount to the French, not speaking
French, or the Spanish not speaking Spanish in their own countries: The
public may soon begin to wonder whose country this really is-ours or whichever
flavor-of- the-month needs to be courted by Washington? (1)
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- Today, the Congress is still watering down another version
of a non- binding gesture that they want to send to Bush-instead of something
that would obligate the Dictator to "own the wars" he started,
and get out of Iraq now. Instead of listening to either the voters in November
or to the new so-called Congress-the self- professed 'decider' has chosen
to not only add troops in Iraq, but he is stepping up his efforts to provoke
yet another phony war: this time with Iran. He obviously thinks he is secure
in blasting his way through his own permanently failed diplomatic gestures,
while his thugs continue to churn out the same tired lies and innuendos
that he and his criminal cabal generated to get into Iraq in the first
place. The self-appointed one has forgotten that he took an oath to protect
and defend Americans first: an oath that would include keeping his promises
on Katrina, making sure that Americans had jobs and that their retirements
would be protected from government's unending appetite to steal their benefits
that they earned over a lifetime of work. Not-to-mention, a fair and affordable
way to obtain medical care (not just access to insurance); a believable
education for our children, not just a bunch of slogans with no money that
are turning American youth into idiots with no past, no present possibilities,
and especially no future! What the hell is going on in this nation-have
we no say in anything that this so-called government is doing in any area
of our lives?
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- People here, just like people almost everywhere else
are entitled to live their lives free from the corrupt government interference
that each of us must navigate through just "to live another
day"!
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- These things may seem small individually, but collectively
they comprise the destruction of the Republic and the end of a way of life!
This government obviously sees all of this from exactly the opposite position:
some even see this as the birth pangs of a glorious New Empire. But when
the celebrations end and reality returns; it appears that all that has
been accomplished is the selling of America to the blood-lust of AIPAC,
and to the New World Order-as only the latest burnt-offering of yet another
failed state to bolster their grip on the rest of the world. "Entitlements"
are one thing, but the theft of this democracy, this way of life, and of
this form of government are not things that any nation worth the name can
tolerate for long. (2)
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- It's not surprising that they've gotten as far as they
have- because so many prefer not to know what's happening now, or what
really happened in the immediate past that created this monstrous nightmare
in the first place. But from here on in things must change: or the temporary
wounds they've inflicted on the limbs of this "democracy" shall
soon become gangrenous and need to be amputated. (3)
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- This is not only about us this is about the survival
of the planet. Thanks to our pre-occupations with ourselves alone, we have
allowed the global environment to be added to the endangered list. We have
only watched while language itself has been turned inside out: so that
now war is seen as peace and "lies" are now construed to be "truth."
The very names of government agencies have been upended, to rape and plunder
the environment under the aegis of The Environmental Protection Agency.
Or in Health and Human Services (HHS), which has become the arbiter over
the death and denial of human services to most of those who have the courage
to darken their doors.
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- Under this government's privatization of even government
itself, as well as the military: Great strides have been made - huge strides
to add to what they've already destroyed while they've pocketed the spoils
from so many previous ventures into their meticulous dissection of the
Prison System, the Educational system, and the Insurance Industries
all privatized for extreme profits to the few, at the expense of everything
that these areas of life were created to serve. The head of the Justice
System recently was asked to explain torture, and the US use of that, in
front of a Senate committee they got no answer at all, from Gonzalez.
There is virtually no area of this nation that is currently functioning
for the benefit of ordinary citizens: Why is the public still not enraged?
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- Of course the public can cite the excuse that: "Hey
- nobody told me!" That might have worked, had there not been so many
alternative ways to find out exactly what is going on. The media is as
complicit if not more so in trying to continue to hide what's really going
on: So many half-told stories, so many half-hearted or incomplete investigations
that take a back seat to gossip & games, not to mention all the outright
lies. The compact between this government and the people of this nation
requires the involvement of the people at all levels-and the government
has seen to it that its control over the population is so damned complicated
and overarching that it becomes virtually impossible to fight them on all
the garbage they continue to shove down our throats daily.
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- This tactic needs to be fought in another way, because
this is not just about money or health, or the environment or the WARS:
this is about the very survival of each and every one of us. We need to
return to the basics of what is right and what is obviously just more from
the "GREED is GOOD" crowd left over from the Reagan years. The
US public's opinions and needs are not represented in government or by
government; but are instead twisted by lobbyists and thieves to become
"for the criminal government's designs" regardless of how these
decisions will affect those of us that make government possible. This policy
has to be stopped!
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- The infrastructure of this nation is in total disrepair,
and there are no jobs that pay a decent wage. The government, if it were
a functioning institution, could create programs that could employ virtually
all the unemployed in rebuilding the infrastructure of America-by putting
everyone back to work on rebuilding this nation: instead of selling off
our freeways to foreign governments and letting everything else just go
to hell. The same kind of 'rescue' could be and SHOULD BE taking place
in New Orleans but instead we are told to "just go shopping"!
Again: Where's the OUTRAGE? The USA is spending $8.7 Billion dollars a
month in Iraq, and that's only what we know about. Fraud is running like
an unchecked flood through the secretly appropriated funds, at last count
nearly $40 Billion was misspent, and no one is even being charged with
a crime, what would happen to you or me - if we misspent $40 Billion dollars
of the government's money?
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- Perhaps Molly Ivins said it best in her final column
today:
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- "We are the people who run this country. We are
the deciders. And every single day one of us needs to step outside and
take some action to help stop this war. Raise Hell We need people in the
streets, banging pots and pans and demanding "Stop it, now."
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Time to Remove the Parasitic War-loving Zionist Bankster
Brain
- http://www.rense.com/general75/znst.htm
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- 2) American Needs Pain
- http://www.rense.com/general75/americ.htm
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- 3) An Iron Curtain is Descending and Most Americans Don't
Know
- http://www.ichblog.eu:80/content/view/202/52/
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- 4) Jim Webb's Barnburner
- http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2007%20Opinion%
20Editorials/January/26%20o/Jim%20Webb%27s%20Barnburner%20By%20Mike%
20Whitney.htm?
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