when it's obvious the public has moved way past the old platitudes and propaganda of recent years. I am sure that all the publicists are running around in circles trying to put a lid on all future leaks. The usual damage control that has worked so well in the past has run out.
It's become obvious -- for whatever reason 911 occurred-- not only was the Patriot Act written before, but according to Wesley Clark the Pentagon had a plan laid out to dominate the Middle East.
The citizenry WENT ALONG with it, the whole Home Security color coding BS and the whole Bush&Co abuse for eight long years. We demonstrated against the war but we bided our time until we could WORK THROUGH THE SYSTEM to elect, with hackable voting machines, our representatives.
And how to we get rewarded, but to have polls showing how unpopular the Patriot Act, surveillance, TSA voyeurism-- and corporate personhood are-- ignored.
We have stood by while ex-and future CEOs write laws enabling their immunity from the same laws Americans get arrested for.
And while many Americans have expressed themselves in disrespectful, racist and threatening ways-- the rest of us have strived to have a reasonable dialogue around these issues of mission creep.
WE DESERVE THE TRUTH -- not treated like children, like the RW neo con/ theocracy wanting/ authoritarian types operate. And we don't want to be treated like criminals, preyed upon by the private for profit prison business either.
The burden is NOT on the American people to prove our trustworthiness-- after all of our compliance and patience with this nonsense. It is a slap in the face to dare treat us as criminals during a time in history when corporate corruption has become so obvious.
None of us want to see violence, and the chaos often unleashed when too many people, each with their own valid and passionate issues-- which have built up over these long years-- head to the streets in anger. FEW of us want to destabilize our country, but what we ask for is a real and measurable retreat from corrupt corporate domination of our duly elected representation.
I think we are capable of peacefully assembling-- but the militarized police with new missions to profile all dissent as a crime, threatens this peace.
It took us a long time to get here, but I think Americans have had ENOUGH.
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