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What happened to the USA, where did it go?

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We live in a tragedy. And what is even a bigger tragedy, we don't do anything about it. This time we are living is going to go down in history books, and history should call us, the people who live in the USA the laziest people that ever lived, or maybe, the most complacent.... same thing really.

We are a do nothing people. b*tch a lot, but do nothing.

Does anyone remember when the USA stood for something, was beloved by the world for the goodness we were (NOT are, but WERE). Does anyone even care?

If there are 300 million people living in the USA, and really a few hundred that are running this country into the ground, instilling hatred for us around the world... why aren't we getting up off our asses and doing something... anything?

We are such an arrogant country... we the people are arrogant as well. We send our children off to war fighting for freedom... yet we are no more free than the people in Iraq. We just have a very different guise.

We are filled with fear... fear our own worst enemy. Our governments can feed us anything they want, and we eat it up like they speak the gospel truth... and our fear gets fatter... heavier.

Why are so few people questioning everything that is happening in our government... or worse, doing anything to change it. To change the atrocity our country has become.

We live in the illusion... and find great comfort in the fact that our elections are going to make a difference. Ohhh now those democrats are in power... that will change things. Truly, it just dumped fuel on an already out of control fire.... enraging the flames of hate and division even more. But we're not looking at that. For now, we have found comfort, more complacency in thinking... ohhh we did something by our votes (at least, the collective consciousness of this diminishing country takes comfort in thinking that).

Does anyone really believe that now, our elders will be well cared for... loved and cherished even? Will our children be able to get enough to eat, educated and allowed to live freely in their hearts?

Do you really think, now that we have had our vote, our governments will rush to our side in our hour of need? Will racism and homophobia stop?

Will we return to the country of Brotherly love.. the very thing that grew us into a great country... a country of honor? If anyone thinks a yes comes to anyone one of these questions... man you have really been duped!

The only time any of this is going to change... is when we change it ourselves! When we band together and change it. When we put our foot down collectively and individually and say... I have had enough. No more killing, both in other countries and within ours. No more tyranny... no more hatred and fear. No more division of we the people...

Does anyone but me find it Ironic (hmmm maybe synchronistic would be a clearer word) that Bush put into place Oct. 2006 a law that would allow him to create a country of Martial Law with a single pen swipe? Do you even realize what Marital Law is.. or worse, do you care? Bush said this country would be "easier to run if it were a dictatorship and he were the dictator" but we the people didn't bat an eyelash... we are soooo damn lazy we don't care.

Anyone who truly believes that the 911 happened without the open and welcoming arms of the Bush Administration... the driving force of the events... the very thing that allowed it all to take place so they can carry out their own personal agenda... has their eyes closed so tight to the true reality it is shameful. But then again, that is what America has become shameful.... fearful... arrogant.

We stand presently in the midst of choice... the choice of getting up, banding together, hand in hand, heart in heart... and take this country back... change the government from the ground up... wipe the slate completely clean and start all over again.... otherwise... our greatest nightmares will surely unfold... and our future reality is much closer than any of us want to believe.

300 million vs. a few hundred hell even if it was a few thousand or a few hunderd thousand... we CAN do this... we can restore love and honor and brotherly love... together. We just have to want it badly enough. If we are going to be a fearful country... FEAR THE GOVERNMENT! Turn that fear into action...postive action and lets start taking back what our forefathers strived so hard to create! It has been unraveling for years.. and we have done nothing to stop it.

Lets stop now, today, this very moment with being so complacent and lazy, and worse yet.. trusting in our government or that our elections did anything other than fuel a fire that is out of control. We just made the fire, the anger, the hate... bigger!

Together.... united in one mind and heart... we can do this, before it is too late to change it.

With honor and hope to all,
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Who I am matters not near as much as what I wish to do... Take back America. WE MUST band together, fight together to reclaim America and the goodness she once stood for. Together, we can figure out a way... the key word here is TOGETHER! Please (more...)
 
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