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How often the public falls for this scam, and how easy it is for those in power to deceive us any time they want to invent a new threat to scare us into going along with whatever scheme they have in mind and even fleece us in the process without our ever being the wiser. Like those they rape and plunder, we, too, are victims - of our own indifference that likely won't change until our wounds begin to smart and fester enough to cause real pain, but by then it may be too late.We the people let them get away with their destructive scheme of endless imperial wars, income redistributionist tax cuts for the rich and corporate giants, the erosion of essential social services and the repressive USA Patriot Act that legalizes all intrusions into our lives and led to the just-enacted Military Commissions Act that effectively annuls the Constitution, criminalizes dissent and makes us all "enemy combatants" with no legal rights left to defend ourselves including the bedrock ones of habeas and due process. How low we've sunk in coming so far and how willing we've been to go along.
The crime of the nation is the shame of a failed state no longer seen abroad as a beacon and symbol of hope and freedom. We stand disrobed and exposed as an out-of-control dystopian rogue enterprise run by a craven leadership fighting a war of terror against humanity that's taking all of us on the road to hell. Is there still time to stop this insanity and save the republic? We'll never know unless we finally realize the enormity of the threat and get aroused enough to fight back in our own self-defense.
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