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jody

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2. Just one of many grievances We the People have against corporatists who have financed candidates
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 06:07 PM
Feb 2012

from both major parties and control government.

They may not be formally organized along traditional party lines but, just like wolves and sharks they watch their prey and never miss an opportunity to tighten their stranglehold on congress, president, and supreme court.

They've learned from failed monarchs and dictators that if one is too aggressive and blatant, prey might spook and run like a herd of wildebeest or circle up like cape buffalo and threaten their attackers.

I wonder how many citizens would "pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" as is happening in several countries around the world?

Absent that commitment, We the People may as well learn the following pledge:

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