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Starfury Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-09-06 06:29 PM
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Government must be rescued from "the clutches of the greedy and dishonest"
A decorated Marine spoke out publicly on governmental corruption:
Today, with all our wealth, a deathly gloom hangs over us. Today we appear to be divided. There has developed, through the past few years, a new Tory class, a group that believes that the nation, its resources and its man-power, was provided by the Almighty for its own special use and profit.... On the other side is the great mass of the American people who still believe in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States.

This Tory group, through its wealth, its power and its influence, has obtained a firm grip on our government, to the detriment of our people and the well-being of our nation. We will prove to the world that we meant what we said a century and a half ago-that this government was instituted not only to secure to our people the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but the right to eat and to all our willing millions the right to work.

This excerpt was from a speech given 7/7/32, yet it holds just as true today. But where is our Smedley Darlington Butler?

I don't have the answer, just the question.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-09-06 06:33 PM
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1. In other words, from the Republicon Party.
The Party of McCarthy, Nixon, Delay, Abramoff, and The Bush** Crime Family.

NGU.


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