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CanonRay

(16,236 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 10:24 AM Jan 2012

Things I Thought I’d Never Live to See [View all]

I turned 60 this year, and I never thought I'd live to see...


The Supreme Court deciding who is President

A Congress and President do away with habeas corpus

US citizens held without trial for years

Americans using, and supporting, torture

The U.S. Government financing bank fraud

Removal of New Deal protections on banking

The American Government murdering U.S. citizens

An American President lying us into a war of aggression

One of America’s two parties completely losing its mind

Corporations running the government

A disgraced, twice divorced man running for President

American politicians deliberately sending American jobs overseas

People desiring Biblical law for America getting any political power at all


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