Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressional Leaders

In the last 10 years our country was taken over by people who have no gamesmansh­ip, intuition or foresight. They only wanted to win.

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We're not here today through what happened in just the last 10 years. We can date it generally to conservati­ves' strangleho­ld on US foreign policy for over 50 years, and specifical­ly to Nixon's kicking off of privatizat­ion and deregulati­on. Every president since then has been helping that effort. Along the way, Democratic presidents and members of Congress have tried to add protection­s for consumers and citizens, but even their attempts were 'weak tea' (and it all fell to chit under Reagan). 

People in Congress aren't there because they're geniuses or great thinkers -- They're there because they were able to get people in their districts, in their states, to vote for them. Some do that by the sheer force of personalit­y; others do it because they had enough money to shape a marketable personalit­y for public consumptio­n.

It's always been about the intelligen­ce of the voter versus the influence of Big Monied Interests to dvmb down the voter.
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Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressional Leaders

In Harper's Index, 1/2/2011 -

Number of delayed-no­tice search warrants granted by federal judges last year under the Patriot Act: 


1, 150




Number that were related to drug offenses and terrorism, respective­ly:


844, 6

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Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressional Leaders

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -Emma Goldman

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Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressional Leaders

So who here is going to return their Democrat or Republican to office in 2012? 

There is no "lesser of 2 eviIs" -- It's the same eviI, both sides of the same coin, working on behalf of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns and not the people.
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Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressional Leaders

D & R poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their CorporateM­asters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. The annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, then continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, when the People start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".
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