Reply #16: You ought to feel repressed and angry. If anything that depression you [View All]

[MSgt213]

feel is borne of frustration which is a direct result of your repression. There is a trend in this country for big business to own everything and a smaller group of people are deciding what you can see and hear.

Witness the effort to get pray into the schools and on to government property. Look at the efforts by big companies with the consent of congress to decide what you can and cannot do with the hardware and software you buy. Look at their efforts to control your use of consumables like refilling printer ink. MS is going to start charging for emails and is already charging you to use outlook or outlook express with their own hotmail.

Look at the GOPs successful efforts to stiffle debate on bills (just vote for it even though it contains things that will help companies and hurt ordinary americans, controlling the media so they report only what they want you to hear Get rid of this movie because you might see something they don't agree with. Get rid of this disc jockey because he might say something they don't agree with. But it's find to produce stuff with their lies in it and leave Rush on because Rush supports the message even though he is lying through his teeth(it's okay to attack and call into question a democrat or greenie with charts and graphs and studies to back up what they are saying, but demand no proof from the GOP who says well I just don't believe it and the guy is talking like he's from France.)

Schools are more and more controlling what kids graduate and what kids will never make it through under the guise of standardize test that in no way improve what they actually learn.

Companies are allowed to collect information about you free of charge and then charge you to see what they collected (so they in effect own it.)

Guess what? I could go on and on about how things are changing for the ones with money and power for the good and how things for ordinary citizens are changing for the worse. But that would depress me.

People in this country at some point are going to have to wake up and understand nothing is always as simple as it seems. When you dealing with people from diverse backgrounds and in large numbers you can't pass bills without debate on their cause and effect. You need more then "you can run but you can't hide" type answers from your leaders. You have to demand that they be able to explain and take responsibility for what they do in your name.

If it's not okay for them to lie about their private life then don't turn around and tell me it's okay for them to lie about life and death, hunger and disease, air and water.