American politics overall is a sad sad joke,but it's not funny for the taxpayer who feel pretty much like fleeced sheep slaves.
USA at this stage of it's history is more corrupt than the USSR ever was. Hail lenin!
No offense, cr0ws, but this statement is outrageously ridiculous. No Americans are disappearing in the middle of the night to never be seen by their families again at the hands of the government. A large segment of the population isn't being forced to live on collective farms and then forced to live on less food than is possible. I read a biography some years ago by a woman who tells of listening to her brother cry every night as he slowly starved to death. The ladies mother had chosen to feed some of her kids so that they might survive, and had to therefore cut off food to others.
Our prisoners have access to medicine, attorneys, religion, recreation. I'm not sure you get that in Russian prisons today.
Our elected leaders step down at the end of their terms, and are replaced with others chosen by the people. You have 2 parties and independents to chose from, or you can not vote at all if you like. In many countries, you will vote for the 'leader' or you will be shot. You get one choice, and your vote is merely a gesture of acquiescence.
I realize that a lot of the world does not like America. Personally, I don't care about that one bit. Untamed animals like Islami-fascists will always despise a nation that represents freedom. China fears that our ideology will corrupt their controlling grip on their populace. Mexico fears our culture even as they encourage their citizens to illegally cross our borders and send money back to Mexico. Venezuela rages against us, but would collapse into chaos if we quit buying their oil. The same goes for the Middle East.
I still can't believe there are people out there who would disparage the removal of Saddam by the USA. Some apparently prefer rape camps and systematic murder and intimidation to the occasional civilian casualty. Personally, I'm opposed to nation building, but for totally different reasons than "American imperialism" or "whatever lame reason we hate Americans this week".
I'm a Fortress America advocate myself. I believe that we would do just fine removing our troops from all other nations, building offshore trade depots, and forbidding foreign nationals from entering American territory. I personally believe that is the only thing that will save us from the nuclear bomb that will eventually find its way into an American city. Unfortunately, when that happens, many of the liberties our clueless citizens take for granted while whining and bleating will go away. Our constitution, which provides so many liberties for our citizens (not foreign nationals) will be swept aside with our Republic and the world will see a very ugly America awaken in place of that lost Republic. Watch out Canada and Mexico, you will have a lot of resources that a newly born American military state will need. Maybe you should tighten your borders to outsiders now forestall this end? Because you will last hours against any American dictator that wishes to invade.
From history to predictions. Whatever it is, it is just history repeating itself. Democracies fall in two ways. To another power, or into totalitarian power. With enough nukes to incinerate the planet, America won't fall to another power. The other option, however, is potentially just one terrorist act away.
In that event, cr0ws, statements regarding government conspiracies will not only be true, they will very quickly involve the speaker of said words. Involve meaning that you are strapped to a chair and screaming for help from God. The proof that you do still live in a free society is that you can accuse the government of things, and be around to do it again.
Western culture has this sickness right now, a self fed guilt for having been so successful. It is self defeating, you can see it in Europe as they allow in more and more immigrants who are making no attempt to assimilate. Eventually so many unassimilated outsiders will be there that there will either be a civil war in the European union, or it will simply cease to exist and the original populations will be the ones forced to assimilate. The riots in France, the bombings in the English streets and Spanish trains, these are just precursors. Spain already surrendered by altering the path of their elections.
In the US, we have the same guilt, we allow 3-5% of our population to be illegal residents, any of which may well harbor a device to end our Republic.
Ancient civilizations built walls for a reason. History teaches us many lessons, and that is to keep the barbarians on the other side of the gates. You can turn barbarians into civilized and peaceful members of the world community, but you don't do that by making your homes less secure. Nor do you do it by nation building wars such as Iraq, Somalia, or Afghanistan unless you are prepared to use brutality and subjugate the locals. Western civs don't do that. How Western civs do it is by exporting culture via radio, Western goods, and religion. Just like in Civ. A city that flips by culture means no units die.
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I guess the moral of the story is: Western gov't is imperfect, yes, but there are no perfect human institutions. We live in a society that is fairly free, fairly wealthy, and fairly secure. We should be vigilant against all enemies, foreign and domestic, but we shouldn't see enemies where none exist while failing to see those that do.
Everyone remember the images on TV of the Palestinians dancing and raising their AK-47s in the air shooting as the WTC towers fell? Barbarians at the gates. Sell them a Big Mac, a Coca-Cola, Sony radio and a Nike running suit. Feed them so much food that they 'just don't feel like jihad today.' as they rub their bellies. People who have nothing to lose will behave like they have nothing to lose. The key to world peace is the GNPs of all nations, and the education of all peoples.
Hopefully someday there is someone in Saudi Arabia talking about the conspiricies that the gov't is up to and the gov't there ignores him. That is progress.
I get my news from Drudge.
