IMAGINE Waking Up in 2004

[whyzayker]

by LINDA GALE NOLEN

Imagine you fell asleep ..oh, let's say, only five years ago.
Imagine you awoke this week in January, 2004.
Keep in mind, as you read on, you have no idea of all that
has changed while you slept those five years.

Keep in mind too that the questions I'm going to ask you are only the short list
and the ones, which may affect you most immediately upon your awakening.

How would you feel about the changes you'd see and hear?
Who would you choose to believe about what has happened while you slept?
With whom would you want to associate now?
Who would you feel you could trust?
How would you feel when you discovered your job had been "outsourced" while you slept?
How would you feel when you discovered the home you owned is no longer yours due
to the revocation of The Posse Comitatus Act.

What would you think when you discovered while sitting in your car at a traffic light that you are being filmed by a constantly running video camera which is also constantly being monitored by
a government official "somewhere" in an undisclosed (to the public) location.

Five years ago you knew there were cameras in stores to help prevent shoplifting.
But, now, cameras are posted on almost every building outside to observe and film
you wherever you walk.

Hard to believe, isn't it?

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[cliss]

1. Great thread, WA.

I've joked on another thread that I feel like I was Rip Van Winkle. I went to sleep one night, and when I awoke, everything had changed. Radically. It was not for 25 years, it was just one night. But everything was different. My government had changed. It was now a menacing, hostile government with a Game Plan. It was a corporate agenda. And we, the people, stood in its way of achieving its objectives. Or rather, we could be a part of this NEW PLAN, but not as participants but rather as cogs in a wheel, or slaves.

It didn't take me very long to figure out that this new government was not on my side. It was my enemy.

What to do? It took months for me to even confirm my suspicions that this really was true. When I finally accepted the truth of this Brave New World, I started to think about the ramifications.

What on earth is to become of this Nation that once stood for truth and justice? What will the future have in store for us? Will we take back our coutry?