from the FORCES OF INFLUENCE that have used OUR government for their own aims. We are used to saying "We have sold weapons of mass destruction ..." which, though not false, is not completely true. I didn't. You didn't. Most of the people in this country didn't. For the most part for a very long time most of us were simply oblivious to what these people who claim to "represent" us were doing. Now, however, despite the corporate owned media's refusal to truly educate WE THE PEOPLE, we are educating one another, one by one. Now we see what is really going on--and if we look closely enough what we'll see is that
WE are an OCCUPIED nation--not unlike Iraq. Yes, we have a Constitution and we have elections and laws, and all that goes to govern US. But when it comes right down to it, how much control do WE
actually have over those who purport to represent our interests? Especially now when we no longer can be certain that our votes are tallied as they were intended. But, even if we
could be certain of those tallies, there still remains the questions of election finance AND the way various issues and candidates are FRAMED via the corporate owned media.
These are very very serious issues that need to be re-framed in the light of a more enlightened body politic. Terrorism is, indeed, ONE of the big lies. I see even my beloved President (Al Gore) still gives voice to this lie as a 'genuine threat' to our national security. Yet, as I see it, it isn't terrorism per cet, but the way these bogymen are USED, that is the genuine threat to our nation. Does Al not know this? Hard for me to believe that he doesn't--but if he doesn't he needs to get educated and fast. If he's going to make statements like this:
An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution - an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
If he is going to 'call us to arms' to save our Constitution, then he'd better be ready to take this all the way down the rabbit hole.
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