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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-12-09 10:38 AM
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3. I just read a bunch of articles on "The Family"...
...and my head is spinning.

It's difficult to know what is real, and what the truth is. However, one thing is certain. Our government
has been marching toward Fascism for a long while. After 9/11--through through the Patriot Act--our government
made law many Fascist tenants. We gave up privacy, we allowed our government to illegally spy on us, prevent
our travel with a secret list of 'bad people' who could not travel. We allowed Habeas Corpus to become a
distant memory, we gave extreme power to corporations over the health and safety of citizens. We allowed
torture and the installation of a prison that is located in an out-of-the-way location with little oversight.

A lot of this stuff---is evidence that there are powerful Fascists who are iteratively crafting a government
that is more to their liking---and is anti-democracy.

Our current state...is evidence that powerful forces are making this stuff happen.
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