Take back your country: Don't count on the media or government

[struggle4progress]

April 13, 2008
Eva Knapp

... I do know that silence in our country today poses a very real threat to our democracy. Waging wars of aggression, violating international laws and treaties, secret prisons, torture, a president declaring himself above the law, illegal wire tapping, denial of habeas corpus, mercenaries on our streets, arresting and "disappearing" citizens - all sound more like fascism than democracy ...

The president has morphed into a buffoon; our soldiers are trapped in a $3 trillion quagmire; crises are worsening in the Middle East; war profiteering has become a lawless enterprise; working Americans are facing economic disaster as jobs go overseas and wealth trickles up; the national debt is approaching $10 trillion; and our civil liberties and human rights are being steadily stripped away ...

The question is: who's going to challenge their policies of aggression and empire? Who's going to demand fidelity to the Constitution, accountability to the people and balance of power in government? Certainly not our invertebrate Congress or the "unitary executive" ideologues on the Supreme Court.

We're it! ...

http://wvgazette.com/Opinion/Op-EdCommentaries/200804120262

[wundermaus]

1. The fourth branch of government...

We, The People...

[Elkster]

2. Yes

We are it. And if we do not stop it, we are as much as fault as this government.
Did anyone say that the German people were not to blame?

And they, the world, will not defend us either; at least we can make up for OUR failure to stop our own d**n government before this, by doing the right thing now. We must demand that our government act now. Do it the only way we can: nag the lazy, political creeps until they get tired of our complaining and give us what we want: a thorough, public investigation of torture in this regime.

[fasttense]

3. A revolution is coming.

There is no stopping it. The Idiot CEOs and their boughten politicians and economists will soon find they are not in control of this country anymore.

[Doctor_J]

4. The first battle is over - the fascists won.

They took over the media, and have managed to position themselves above any law.

Our turn is coming. The neocons and the media are enemies of democracy and of the people. When we've reclaimed our country, their punishment will be quite unpleasant.