Are you following all of this? Is it enough to make your head spin? Do you realize that nobody has been indicted for the biggest scam that ever happened in history? Will anyone ever get indicted? The statute of limitations will insure that everyone gets off Scott-free if someone doesn't do something about it. Where is a good U.S. Attorney General when you need one? So who are the suckers left holding the bag? The American taxpayer.
There is so much more that is so wrong in America. We torture people. We use the Patriot Act to search "suspected terrorists" without a warrant, eavesdrop on their online use and their phone calls. We arrest people without the benefit of Habeas Corpus, deny them representation and try them under military commissions. Who are these "suspected terrorists"? Anyone the government deems they are. There are no safeguards.
Why don't we hear about this on the news? Probably because
everything you see and hear on television is censored. They are censored by the
government, their advertisers (oil companies, the defense industries and major
corporations that don't pay any taxes). You will hear about sex scandals, the
President's latest speech (with hardly any criticism of any substance while
commentators tell you what has been said in language that third graders can
understand). You will hear Democrats tearing Republicans apart over issues of
no consequence and vice versa. Legislation introduced condemning U.S. military
involvements aren't mentioned. Anti-government demonstrations aren't reported
on. Death tolls in the many wars we are involved in aren't publicized.
How do we know what is really going on? Well, the sad fact is that most people remain ignorant. There is the internet though. More and more Americans are getting uncensored news in just this way.
So what can be done about all of this? How can we change the
direction of this nation? What about things like peak oil and climate change
that hang over us like impending doom? What happens when the dollar is no
longer the world's reserve currency and we can't buy oil and commodities from
other nations by printing money?
These are legitimate questions. I can only say this, get off your ass and get involved. Sitting in your living room, night after night, watching the idiot box won't make any of these life altering problems go away. Don't expect your "elected representatives" to care about anything. Sure, there are a handful of people in Congress that are doing the right thing, but only a handful. Get the facts; think for yourself, not what some talking head on TV tells you.
Go out with all the "radicals" and "dissidents" and demonstrate for what you believe to be right. They love to tag people who won't go along with their propaganda and half-truths with labels. Don't let that intimidate you. I suspect with the way things are now, the majority of Americans are "dissidents". If you can, donate time and money to those causes you think will change things. Educate yourself about things you thought were boring, foreign affairs, U.S. military involvements, the defense budget, censorship of the mainstream media and who precipitated this financial crisis and how they did it. Find out how your congressman and Senators voted and why. Ask them why they haven't addressed the loss of Congressional power.
Be vocal about the things you care about. Don't "go along to
get along". We are at the edge of a cliff and the only way to go is down unless
you push back. Ask why we are fighting in Afghanistan and Libya and Yemen? Why
do we need to spend 39% of our budget on the military? When will we leave Iraq?
Why are we threatening Iran when all the UN watchdog agencies like the IAEA
report that Iran is NOT building a nuclear weapon? Why are we encircling Russia
and China? Why do we support a terrorist State like Israel that has bombed and
strafed and used tanks against Gaza while stealing land from the Palestinians? Why
do we support a nation like Bahrain that tortures their citizens that protest
for democracy while we turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia and the Arab Emirates
as they send in their U.S. supplied tanks to crush the protestors?
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