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Other then the fact that it is blatantly unconstitutional, and that Congress is nothing more than a rubber stamp now anyway, the fact that there is a six-year window on this means that the gop feels safe enough that there will not be a Democratic congress this fall, nor will there be a Democratic President in two years that they think they can pass this into law.
Think about it, why on earth would they give this much potential power to their potential opponents in two years unless that election was already won?
Folks, we are on our own here. In the same way Germany didn't become the Third Reich overnight, neither has the US become a fascist state overnight, but if you stop for a moment and take stock of the shocking level of control that has been seized by the gop in this country since being installed six years ago, it should scare you shitless. Criticism of the ruling party gets shouted down as being unpatriotic or un-American, ordinary citizens are being spied upon with flagrant disregard to the Constitution under the guise of "National Security". E-mails, telephone calls, internet usage, financial and medical records are now open books to the ruling party. Elections are brazenly stolen and those that point it out are ridiculed and belittled as kooks or left-wing crazies. The president(sic) and his advisors ignore red-alert alarms about potential terrorist attacks, and then after our worst fears are realized the president(sic) stands on the bodies of those innocents allowed to die, and with bullhorn in hand tells us about how we will be protected by them and them alone. When a few brave souls point out the rulers role in allowing that dreadful day to unfold as it did, they send out their rabid junkyard dogs to bark and snarl and attack them with a level of vicious vitriole unparalleled in recent times.
We are led into an obscenely expensive, completely elective and totally unnecessary war based on deceptions, carefully parsed innuedo and outright lies. We became a nation that ignores the Geneva conventions with the permission and blessing of the Attorney General, and after occupying a country that had neither attacked us nor threatened to do so, became a nation that instead of ridding that country of torture and rape-rooms, simply took over it's most infamous prison Abu Ghraib, and hung a sign outside saying "Under New Management". We are told by the media that it's okay to torture these people because they "hate our freedoms". We are told by the media that we shouldn't criticise the president in a time of war. We are told that if we speak our minds we are aiding and abetting the enemy.
We are told that the economy is going from strength to strength, that the minimum wage doesn't need to be raised so that the poorest among us can afford $3 gasoline and it's insidious knock-on affect on the price of everyday goods. We are told that the rich need even more tax cuts, because those already gifted to them aren't quite sufficient to protect their already obscene wealth. We are told that the greatest threat to this country is not perpetual war, the decimation of the envionment, or the almost total erasure of the Bill of Rights, but rather homosexuals being allowed to marry, the "flood" of illegal immigrants and the freedom to burn Old Glory in protest. We are told by the numerous right-wing attack-dogs that "Democrat", "Liberal" and "Progressive" are dirty words, and only those that wish harm upon America would ever associate themselves with such people. The media that is supposed to report on what they see in an unbiased fashion, to investigate, to probe, to ask questions, does none of that and instead shapes what we see, interprets what we see, in one political direction and has allowed the concept of journalistic integrity to wither on the vine in their rush to spew fawning admiration on the ruling party.
We are told that our enemies hate us for our freedoms, but when we try and excercise those freedoms we are cowed into submission with the threat of more terror attacks. We are told that we are winning the war on terror and yet the body-count of brave young soldiers continues to mount. We are told that Iraq is on the road to independence, but we can't give them a date as to when we will leave.
This is about installing a permanent one-party rule. This is about the super wealthy taking over control of this country, crushing dissent, eliminating the middle-class and obliterating the constituion once and for all.
We have one last shot at stopping this. We have one last chance to stop the cancer that is killing this country from the inside, to end the deception and the lies, one last, final attempt to take this country back, and that happens this fall. It is time for all of us to do whatever we can to raise awareness, to motivate people, to enlighten everyone we know about just how important this election is. It is time to make the votes so overwhelmingly onesided that even Diebold will not be able to steal this election without it being so obvious that even the bought-and-paid-for wholly-owned subsidiaries of corporate America formerly known as "The Media" will be unable to ignore it.
If we don't it'll be all over. Game, set and match. That grand experiment originally set up by the founding fathers so many years ago will have officially failed. The ruling elite will have won, and the rest of us will be permanently beholden to them as their over-worked, under-paid serfs. And this line-item veto power grab is simply the most recent, blatantly obvious step down that highway.
God help us all.
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