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Can Americans Escape the Deception? Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/04/can-americans-escape-deception/...Not a single one of these (Fourth of July) speeches will contain one word of truth. No speaker will lament the death of the US Constitution or urge his audience to action to restore the only document that protects their liberty. No speaker will acknowledge that in the 21st century the Bush/Obama Regime, with the complicity of the Department of Justice, federal courts, Congress, presstitute media, law schools, bar associations, and an insouciant public have murdered the Constitution in the name of the war on terror.
None of this will be mentioned in July 4 patriotic speeches. The inebriated masses will be wrapped in the flag and return home full of the hubris that despises lesser foreigners, such as Muslims, Arabs, Chinese, and the French. And no dignitary will mention that those that we are killing over there are mainly women, children, village elders, and aid workers. The US troops seem to specialize in soft targets like weddings, funerals, kids soccer games, farm houses, and schools. Recently Washington reduced the collateral damage count by declaring every murdered male of military age to have been a Taliban fighter or terrorist. Obviously, Washington has no way of knowing whether they were or not, but Washingtons declaration is intended as a green light to murder Afghan males of military age.
Currently, Washington has wars underway, or occupations, or is violating the sovereignty of countries with drones and/or troops in seven Muslim countries, and is arming rebels in Syria. All of this is being done without the constitutionally-required authorization by Congress, allegedly the peoples representatives. What a joke!
In short, in freedom and democracy america, the people have no voice and no rights and no representatives.
Yet, this huge deficit of democracy and liberty will pass unmentioned by July 4th orators.
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