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Crimes of the State

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Mark A. Goldman
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Our election processes have come to mean little more than official payoffs for money and power. The votes of ordinary citizens count for almost nothing compared to the money spent by corporations and wealthy individuals to promote lies to the public to corrupt the souls of the voters, officials, the elected and would-be elected, as well as owners and managers of businesses who might have once legitimately thought of themselves as honest people. And so we have 435 members of the House, 100 members of the Senate and 2 Executives who carry around a Constitution in their pocket while apparently less than a handful out of all of them understand a word of it. If they do understand it where are they? Dialing for dollars? Has any of this come to your attention before?

So this is the new America, or perhaps it is the old America no longer able to hide behind a wizard's screen. And what about Iran? How did it happen that Mohammed Mossedegh, a democratically elected and beloved president of Iran, was overthrown in favor of the Shah and later replaced by religious clerics? Who did that and why? Let Google be your friend. I'm leaving plenty, plenty, plenty of space for you to fill in crimes I didn't mention. I'm only mentioning a few here for you who are just tuning in... just beginning to look at what all the fuss is about... what you have to look forward too if you continue to wonder why things in the good 'ol USA and elsewhere aren't going as well as they used to.

Some of what I mentioned above and more, are the lies, deceits, murders, and other crimes perpetrated by our own government, and those Americans and foreign citizens who work to keep it corrupted... not just the current administration but going back and back... The truth eventually comes out; it always does; but our truth now is beginning to look nothing at all like democracy, freedom, or human decency... and that lack of decency is getting us closer and closer to the end of suitable life for human beings... or maybe the end of happiness for human beings... or maybe the end of life or happiness for any kind of being that lives in a place that any honest observer can still describe as unbelievably beautiful in and of itself.

Well of course we all knew that not everyone honors the Golden Rule, the Bill of Rights, or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it's also true that anyone who wants to, can.

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Mark A. Goldman is an author, financial planner and was a candidate for president of the United States in 2008 and 2012. His new book called "Starting Over" is available for download free as a pdf file at this address: (more...)
 

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