re-post of my belabored anti-Oligarchy anti-Bush OP
This is a re-post of a repost. Background; this started as a post in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5962555
(started Dec 14, 6:00PM)
Responders to my post suggested I repost as an OP, which I did, and this included additional info and links to buttress my points. Unfortunately, one of my links was to a known anti-Semitic website, and the OP got taken down by jury decision. (OP started Dec. 15, 9:16 PM, juried Dec 15, 11:00 PM)
So I wrote this OP in response to that, mostly to inform my DU mates of the pitfalls of posting links to unfamiliar websites.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025966634 (started Dec. 16. 8:00 AM)
Some of the responders to this thread requested to see the removed OP, this time without the anti-Semitic link. So I found a link with equivalent info from the Denver post, which is probably not an anti-Semitic hate site.
And I’m beating this long dead horse mostly because of the modest DU demand to see what all the fuss was originally about. One of the unfortunate things to the juried post is that the DU community can no longer see all the responses, which, per DU norms, were really awesome and embellished the original point with insights that were both profound and beyond the knowledge I had before I posted.
- Jim
Well, this is unusual. There was a demand to make this an OP:
A huge mistake?
It's only a huge mistake if you think the POWERS THAT BE that actually run America have any interest what so ever in maintaining the USA as a Democratic Republic as envisioned by the founding fathers and maintained thusly from 1776 to around 1980 or so.
Twenty years of “trickle down, government is the problem, privatize everything” later, the utter dismantling of our Democracy began in earnest on September 11, 2001. That's when the PTB's decided it was all clear to turn the USA into a totalitarian fascist police state.
They rolled out THE PATRIOT ACT and signed it into law in less than EIGHT WEEKS after 9-11 happened! Our Fascists have foresight, don't they?
Do any DU mates know of any source that can provide an accurate inventory of how many of our Constitutional Rights have been nullified since 9-11? It's a damn shame we've lost so many of them, considering the millions of servicemen we lost in all those Wars that died defending the American Way of Life. Their service was all for naught. We gave away everything they sacrificed for so the PTB's could "keep us safe". I only wish the PTB's were equally earnest keeping us safe from cancer, heart disease, suicide, murder, auto accidents, and all the other deadly hazards out there that kill 2.5 million American's per year. (We're all going to die someday. My point is there's natural causes of death and preventable causes of death. If a lot of mortality in America is preventable, then why isn't our HELL-BENT-ON-KEEPING-US-ALL-SAFE Government also do something to bring that number down by means other than warrantless wiretapping or a militarized police force?)
And while I'm ranting, a little item that has slipped down the memory hole. To this day, I contend that only perhaps .1% of all Americans even know that GWB was business partners with one of Osama's older brothers?
http://www.denverpost.com/rodriguez/ci_4319898
The above link replaces the previous link to known anti-Semitic web site.
To be fair to GWB, Osama and Salem's dad had a lot of wives and produced a lot more siblings for Osama than usual, so that increases the probability that any of us would associate with Bin Laden family members. And the Bin Laden family that found themselves in the USA immediately after 9-11 were the only people in the United States allowed to use U.S. airspace in the days immediately following 9-11. I want to know who in our government made that happen and why did they do it?
http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=14289 (If democrats.com or denverpost.com are known hate sites, pls. PM me and I'll remove it)
-90% Jimmy
Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5962555
So yeah, sure. Anything to help catapult the propaganda around here, I guess?
I am actually flattered. It's nice every now and then to have a post resonate with my DU mates.
If I post things on DU that see farther than others, it's because I have stood on the shoulders of DU giants - like Mr. Octafish.
So anybody got that breakdown of which Constitutional Rights are either still in full force or completely inoperative?
-90% Jimmy
