Why Runaway Political Corruption? All the Burglar Alarms Are (or are being) Turned Off....

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And How did that happen?

Because when you catch a criminal, but don't prosecute and punish them, the first thing they do is
TURN OFF ALL THE BURGLAR ALARMS.

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1. Vonnegut (RIP) warned us:

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So let’s give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That’ll teach bin Laden a lesson he won’t soon forget. Hail to the Chief.

That chief and his cohorts have as little to do with Democracy as the Europeans had to do with Christianity. We the people have absolutely no say in whatever they choose to do next. In case you haven’t noticed, they’ve already cleaned out the treasury, passing it out to pals in the war and national security rackets, leaving your generation and the next one with a perfectly enormous debt that you’ll be asked to repay.

Nobody let out a peep when they did that to you, because they have disconnected every burglar alarm in the Constitution: The House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the FBI, the free press (which, having been embedded, has forsaken the First Amendment) and We the People.

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/

If you haven't read the whole thing, it's a Must Read.