The Night Visitor

When good countries go bad

xexon | 23 May, 2006 03:02

If I had fallen into a coma 50 years ago and woke up just recently, I would swear that I was in a different country.

I've been awake all those years, but I can only vaguely remember what it was like to live in a nation I was once so proud to be a citizen of. Where is the apple pie and white picket fence America I was brought up to believe in? Whatever happened to the land of the free and home of the brave? To our generous hearts? To our shining example of democracy?

Why is the United States pulling a Jekyll & Hyde on the world?

We can take a hint by examining president Eisenhower's final speech in 1961. In it, he warned us of the growing military/industrial complex. Even then, it was making inroads into our own government. Eisenhower knew of it years earlier, and for whatever reason, perhaps out of fear for his own life, he kept silent about it up until the very end of his term in office.

The United States has now become a corporate entity rather than a democracy.

This is what happens when the will of the people has been pushed aside by private interests and big money. Money talks, as the old saying here goes. The leaders listened (traitors!), and sold out our country to the highest bidder. In a democracy, the people talk, leaders listen, and act according to the will of those people. I don't know what to call whatever is in place today. It sure ain't democracy. And the "will of the people" is manipulated with propaganda to the point we don't even know who we are anymore.

This is not just happening in the USA, but as the world's last remaining military superpower, the implications for the rest of the world are grave. If its not the will of the people driving this country, then its somebody else's. That somebody is eyeing the oil reserves around the world with the intention of making it their own. And they have the huge military of the US at their disposal.

The only barrier to them having absolute control over this country is being unable to convince 100% of the population that they are right and you are wrong. They did a good job selling the Iraq war. They did a good job of making people feel threatened by outside enemies. They even did a good job of covering their tracks to 9/11.

People are beginning to wake up to the fact that something is wrong with us. Perhaps too late. We have a cancerous growth at the highest levels of government.

I don't think we're going to survive it.


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