Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Real Owners Of America

The Real Owners Of America? Not You, American People!





TO My Fellow Americans, Quiz Yourself on this question: is your country turning into a facist state?

If more than 50% of your answers are YES, then what are YOU good citizens of America gonna do about it?
1)Your president asserts the right to ignore part or all of laws passed by the national legislature.

2)Massive warrantless searches

3)Your president and other officialsregularly lie to you

4)Fraudulent election counts

5)Government monitoring of letters, emails, phone calls and checking accounts

6)Secret courts

7)A government subservient to the interests of the country's largest corporations.

8)Use of torture on prisoners

9)Courts that support presidential use of unconstitutional powers

10)Massive spying on citizens, especially those involved in political dissent

11)A government that uses words like democracy, freedom and peace while engaging in acts dramatically at odds with such words

12)Government agencies or officials declaring themselves exempt from portions of the law or constitution

13)Creation of watchlists, no-fly lists and similar exclusionary documents

14)National ID cards

15)Growing number of citizens incarcerated for a growing number of offenses

16)Massive use of cameras to spy on citizens

17)A media supportive of, or obsequious towards, the government in covering its police state activities

18)Security bubble around government leaders' public appearances including preselected audiences and limit on proximity of protests

19)Disarming of citizenry

20)Dissent characterized as disloyal by government and its supporting media

21)Increasing government control over private behavior

22)Lack of legal recourse to stop illegal government actions

23)Prison without trial and arrests without charges

24)It is difficult to borrow books from libraries pertaining to controversial subjects such as, communism,socialism,and, fascism.

25)Transfer of powers from legislatures to executive

26)Assassinations of popular public figures

27)Expansion of prisons and laws that lead people to prisons

28)President claims right to make war whenever he wants

29)Words misused to mean their opposite: i.e. peace for war, democracy for fascism

30)The president sets himself up as the sole moral authority for the entire country, using his personal beliefs as the basis on which to declare what is 'good' and what is 'evil.'

31)Federal takeover of functions formerly considered essential state or local responsibilities such as state militias and public education

32)Creation of a mercenary military force used for foreign and domestic purposes

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