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VIRTUAL AMERICA: FENCES, TERROR WARS AND OPPOSITION PARTY by Dave Lindorff

 
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VIRTUAL AMERICA: FENCES, TERROR WARS AND OPPOSITION PARTY by Dave Lindorff
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May 19, 2006


Fences, Terror Wars and Opposition Party

Virtual America


By DAVE LINDORFF


It makes sense that President Bush would propose a "virtual fence" on the border with Mexico.

After all, he is pretty much a virtual president, fronting for the real powers behind the administration: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

For that matter, we have a virtual Congress. It looks like a Congress, with representatives from 435 districts and all 50 states, but it doesn"t do anything. Well, let me correct myself. It passes virtual legislation, which the virtual president then ignores by quietly issuing "signing statements" along with his signature. That is to say, he puts a virtual signature to the bills, and actually files them away under "inactive."

Then there"s the virtual opposition, the Democratic Party, which despite having 45 votes in the Senate, and 203 votes in the House, cannot bring itself to make an effective challenge to the Republican majority on almost any issue.

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House minority leader, is claiming to be the Decider of her party in the lower chamber, saying that it will be up to her whether impeachment gets considered after the November election if the Democrats manage to take control. But if she is such a leader, surely she"d have been able to get her caucus to vote as a block and prevent such horrors as the bankruptcy "reform" bill, the oxymoronic "No Child Left Behind" act, the even more cynically named USA PATRIOT Act, and other outrages. In fact, Pelosi is a virtual leader of her party in the House, unable to get the troops to stick together on anything of consequence. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is the corresponding virtual leader of the Democrats in the Senate.

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Re: VIRTUAL AMERICA: FENCES, TERROR WARS AND OPPOSITION PARTY by Dave Lindorff
The debts being racked up to continue this war on terror, is putting a mighty high price on freedom. Soon freedom will become too expensive, and so cheaper forms of government will need to be considered to keep the nation intact. A dictatorship would cut out a lot of the middle men which now clog up the system. These middle men on both sides of politics do nothing but rubber stamp which is going on these days anyways, and it is just a matter of time, before these virtual figureheads are done away with to cut costs to maximize the bottom line. Corporate America are using this virtual government model as a Punch and Judy show, to distract most of America, so they can keep ramming through these reforms without waking too many America up too early, so that when the time is right, a watershed moment can occur, and the old order can give way to the new.

The thing is, America will be thanking their over lords for doing this, because they will be convinced that it was done for their safety and security. The bread and the circuses must go on for now, until the climate is prepared, where America will then need to pull to together, so that they can then sacrifice like they never have before for the "greater good". Once the rest of the world loses interest in the petro-dollar, and they switch to using the petro-euro, the only thing America will be good for is one big prison, so that Europe can then export their unwanted human garbage, like they did when they set up here in Australia more then 2 centuries ago. So it looks like America will be, what we once were.
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Re: VIRTUAL AMERICA: FENCES, TERROR WARS AND OPPOSITION PARTY by Dave Lindorff
Hello BMG



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One has to wonder what makes up these criminals-

How can one person strive for so much evil and find others to share in their debauchery?
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