What the HELL have we let happen to our country?

[Subdivisions]

New Orleans.

Haliburton has successfully pulled off a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'%C3%A9tat">coup d'état of our executive, legislative (which we've taken back), AND judicial (hi Gonzo!) branches.

KBR, Blackwater and their ilk are now displacing our own warmaking abilities (how long before they turn their armies on us?).

Secret prisons.

Military Commissions Act. Habeus Corpus.

Big Oil.

Wal-Mart.

Global Warming.

Health care.

Poverty.

Jesus Christ! Where the HELL are you!?

We're one fucked-up country in a fucked-up world.
































New Orleans.




Edited to add: This rant inspired by:

http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/jan/video/dnB20070126a.rm&proto=rtsp (you'll need http://www.real.com/player/?src=realplayer">RealPlayer)

as cited by this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=62565&mesg_id=62565

[chelsea0011]

1. And Dr. Phil is a millionaire.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. The biggest attack to our country wasn't 9\11 ,it was 11/7 2000

Superficial reasoning got us Shrub.

[Postman]

4. You're soo right. Scalia and the rest of the rightwing terrorists on the SC

gave us this mess....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I've not figured it out

but I'm spending a lot of time in meditation and prayer.

[Selatius]

5. America went to sleep after the 1960s.

The battles of the 1960s were half-fought. We still have a private campaign finance system and a restrictive two party system and an idiotic Electoral College. We still have poverty, and now our schools and our health care system are failing. Greed, for what happened in the 1960s, managed to survive and thrive after Flower Power.

[blues90]

6. Glad to hear someone else feels this way

We should have never stopped after the vietnam war ended , we should have kept on the fight .

[paparush]

7. Its time for lawyers, guns, and money...

and not necessarily in that order...

[orpupilofnature57]

9. RIP Warren Zevon!

[Jim Sagle]

8. Whatever the hell they want.