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December 29, 2007 at 18:11:03

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WHEN AMERICA CEASED TO BE FREE

by Allen L Roland

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America ceased to be free when it replaced Democracy, responsibility and true freedom with security and then exported it to countries like Pakistan under the guise of  Democracy ~ thus beginning the slow descent toward a plutocracy and total loss of freedom. Bhutto's assassination is dramatic evidence of this : Allen L Roland
Make no mistake about it, Pakistan is far more valuable to the Cheney/Bush administration as a non democratic state under the dictatorship of Musharraf than a democratic state under the possible rule of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto. 
And don't rule out the role of the CIA in Bhutto's death ~ two months before her death, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto sent an e-mail to her U.S. adviser and longtime friend, saying that if she were killed, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf would bear some of the blame.
http://snipurl.com/1vy7r . 
And Musharraf never faced a serious demand from the Bush administration to protect Bhutto.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=23712
Witness the police abandoned Security Posts Before Bhutto was assassinated and here are two dramatic photographs from a video that captured the suspected assassin of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto as he aimed his pistol and fired ~ the most dramatic image clearly shows the hand of the assassin raised with a hand gun firing point-blank at Bhutto as she stood through the sun roof of the car leading her from a rally in Rawalpindi. Read - and see - the latest now on WND.com.
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59438
Nothing will stand in the way of the implementation of the Cheney/Bush neocon global agenda and certainly not a democratic and free Pakistan  ~ for the greatest enemy of the Cheney/Bush administration is the people's will and the truth. 
Look for the Cheney/Bush administration to soon move troops into Pakistan to protect their Nukes ~ under the guise of the War on Terror while the Musharraf government blames Bhutto's death on Al-Qaida .
Sir Edward Gibbon sums up the consequences for a nation when they substitute security for responsibility ~ " In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all ~  security, comfort, and freedom. When ... the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." -- Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794 
Allen L Roland
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Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on  www.conscioustalk.net 

 

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When Corporations became "Persons"

We ceased to be a democracy of the people when Corporations became legal "persons" and that needs to be fundamentally corrected.  No time soon it looks like.

As far as democracy around the world - the United States continues to put corporate interests ahead of the people's interests if corporate interests, ie, the national resources of those countries benefit them.  I'd say benefit the United States but corporate interests and the interests of the people of the US are not the same.

We like strong arm dictators because they suspend the rights of the people and allow us cheap access to the resources in their own lands.  Strong arm dictators profit handsomely at the expense of their own peoples.

 George Bush (and the corporate interests in the US for that matter) like the Pakistani Dictator in power, if they wanted true democtratic reforms they would have insisted on keeping Benazir Bhutto safe.  They didn't, at best they are negligent in her demise, at worse, shutter to think what our own government is capable of...  what our secret agencies are doing in our name.  Evidence suggests our government likes participating in strong arm, covert, internationally illegal tactics.  (Nice democracy we have!)

We're controlled by the industrial (Military, Health, Pharma...) complexes - and no real change is in sight.  Unfortunately. 

by August Adams (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 585 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 30, 2007 at 1:39:46 PM

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All valid points,  August  ~ that's why John Edwards has the right message for these desperate times and has pledged to fight and correct corporate and special interest abuse in government.

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (1046 articles, 7 quicklinks, 44 diaries, 420 comments [15 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 30, 2007 at 4:05:31 PM

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excellent point you make here. OEN member mikel paul pointed out a 3h documentary film about Corporations which I think we all need to see in its entirety. Here ya go......

corporation

...and as Mikel said, peace !

by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 30, 2007 at 4:31:29 PM

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