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nadinbrzezinski

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10. I compare 911 and the USPA to the enabling act

Reply to usGovOwesUs3Trillion (Reply #8)

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 01:26 AM

Aug 2013

That s the day we officially became an empire.

Look at US government. Insofar as the mechanism of Empire and foreign policy it is functional, and there is a continuity of policy regardless of who is the nominal president.

Now...like Rome...the domestic government is completely dsfunctional. We just need Caligula bringing his horse to the Senate...I swear.

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How many decades before congress apologizes to her citizens, again, for violating their civil libert [View all] usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 OP

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians OnyxCollie Aug 2013 #1

same as it ever was, eh? usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #3

the CWRIC estimated the value of income and property losses OnyxCollie Aug 2013 #5

yeah, but they did get that usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #7

I don't want to get my hopes up, OnyxCollie Aug 2013 #9

Only after the fall of empire nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #2

We were an empire then, too (41 and 83) usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #4

Nothing like now nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #6

Still an empire though usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #8

I compare 911 and the USPA to the enabling act nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #10

agreed usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #11

Link? zappaman Aug 2013 #12

from an old timer, too usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #14

I admit I do not believe the US will survive as a continental empire. nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #13

Agree, Nadin. I think this process will be accelerated by climate change/biosphere collapse villager Aug 2013 #16

How about apologizing to us for the Iraq War Resolution? grasswire Aug 2013 #15

Her citizens? How come when Congress is being asked to apologize, all of a sudden it's a "her"? pnwmom Aug 2013 #17