Reply #2: What to the Slave (Iraqi, farm worker, tortured, starving and oppressed) is the Fourth of July?

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Let's be a bit more critical of our country and get our history straight Tom. On balance, it's bad. Please read the most famous piece by Frederick Douglas comparable in importance and magnitude to MLK's "I have a Dream..." speech
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162

...and then read it again substituting all the other victims - of this American empire of doom - for the slaves.

This country is set apart from the rest of the world for the magnitude of it's crimes around the world and the success of the propaganda that this is the greatest country in the the world because of it's constitution. Answer me this: Why aren't food and housing primary rights in this constitution?

"The American Empire has always been a bi-partisan project. Democrats and Repugnicans have taken turns extending it, extolling it, justifying it. The rhetoric, often persuasive on first hearing, soon becomes overwhelmed by horrors that can no longer be concealed." -Howard Zinn