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mutius Donating Member (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 07:54 AM
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Pleae save America Please
Why? Are they destroying my country and yours too? Think about our children and grand children. The greatest country in the history of the world is gone.
“We need always to demand adherences to the built-in checks and balances in our government's separation of powers. We need always to build a politically smarter, less trusting, better-educated, and more active population. It is our task as a free society to ensure that our politicians take America in a responsible, constructive, and honorable direction.
If our free society does not exercise its power over the government, the government will usurp power, justify its actions as being in the best interest of the people, and systematically take away the freedoms we enjoy. It is the nature of organized power.
Our leaders will lie to the public if they feel comfortable and will rationalize it as operating in the best interest of the people. We can never let them feel comfortable with lying. That is our responsibility and also that of the much-maligned press, who can be the leeches, but they also protect our rights. America’s leader’s must be constantly reminded for whom they work.
America’s citizens must also be careful not to be manipulated by politicians. The politicians and military are particularly adept at using patriotism as a tool to serve their personal objectives, which may not necessarily be in the best interest of the United States. The Vietnam War taught the American public the fallibility of its most powerful leaders and their inclination to deceive the public if it suited their purpose. Our country was easily deceived in Vietnam. The politicians deceived themselves.” (Joseph W. Callaway)
Joseph W. Callaway was a infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. this was a quote from his book (Mekong First Light)
If we do not adhere to this quote then our country is no longer free. It is the job of the press to keep us informed with the truth in order for America to survive.
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