Corporate Owned Government and the rise of Fascism. Thanks ABC!

[Renaissance Man]

There you have it folks! Everything that you feared that this nation wouldn't become.

I spoke to my brother last night, and I asked him if he felt that the news coverage as of late did not accurately reflect issues pertinent to the United States, and whether or not serious questions would be asked concerning the economy, home foreclosures, the quagmire in Iraq, and a litany of other issues that, as of late, should be a lot more important than whether or not Rev. Wright is patriotic.

The status quo is threatened, and everything that I feared that our founding fathers did not want this country to become is unfolding right before my eyes. I'm a firm believer in freedom of the press, but what happens when the press does not truly exercise its freedom and becomes an agent of the government to feed propaganda?

Yep. You got it. Fascism.

... and it's saturated almost every major news organization in these United States.

For a minute there, I began to ask myself if whether or not a flag lapel pin was more important than 4,000 soldiers dead in Iraq, whether or not Rev. Wright saying "God Damn America!" was more important than the treasury bailing out one of the oldest investment banks while 1 in 10 people are projected to be on food stamps next year, and whether or not an increase capital gains taxes would be more important than John McCain not understanding the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite Muslim.

... but hey, here's Charlie Gibson there to remind me of what things I should feel are important, right?

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you, fascism. If you think Stalin was a piece of work, you ain't seen nothing yet. Perhaps I should start thinking of the many different ways that Michael Chertoff will use these new domestic surveillance technologies, or rather how Blackwater may just be the next best thing since the Red Army.

Soon enough, we won't have to worry about going to Cuba to build more Gitmo's. We'll have them in our own back yard. We can then start denouncing (declaring each other enemy combatants) each other and just hasten the day where that piece of paper called the Constitution was nothing more than some old guys trying to iron out the details concerning this whole idea of freedom thing.

Liberty. We the people. Freedom. Get used to knowing what it felt like to speak of those in the past tense.

Just ensure that you send your "forget-me-nots" to ABC.

[truedelphi]

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[screembloodymurder]

2. I have to agree. We live in a fascist country.

Capitalism has devoured democracy and bought off the press. This is no longer the greatest nation on earth.