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Ah, America....
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Ah, America....
Land of the Not So Free As You Think You Are!

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23526-...-dangerous

Quote:The conviction of Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan for assault on a police officer shows that the judiciary is corrupt and dissent will not be tolerated. We can no longer call ourselves a democratic society, and as Chris Hedges says, we are living in the “post-constitutional era.”

Since 9/11, the justification given for incremental loss of our freedoms has been “keeping us safe from terrorism.” But in truth, governments always seek to accrue more power to control their populaces in service to elite economic interests. It is an imperative which pre-dated 9/11, but one that afterwards spiraled out of control.

A heightened state of fear, a subliminal awareness of being expendable in the neo-liberal economy and the distraction of consumer culture have kept the majority of Americans in paralysis. In the meantime, institutions which protected our rights have been systematically undermined. This, unfortunately, is the regime we now live under:
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RE: Ah, America....
Do you agree with everything written in this? This type of journalism seems almost like border-line conspiracy theory,
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RE: Ah, America....
(May 6, 2014 at 4:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Land of the Not So Free As You Think You Are!


Ours are even less a home of the brave than it is the land of the free.
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