THERE IS SOMETHING TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY

[IChing]

"There is something terribly wrong with this country

How did this happen? Who is to blame?

If your looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"

V


Torture, hate, intolerance, injustice, war, inequality racism
vs
fairness, honesty, truth, peace, justice, equality






is what we are discussing now
or needs to be discussed?

[MadMaddie]

1. Remember, Remember the 7th of November......

[IChing]

4. Remember September 11 when the

government did their sin and the government's anthrax made us fear and kill and have their war.

Remember Katrina
the government left the poor and innocent to suffer and die.

Remember Abu Ghraib
when that mirror looked us in the eye

Remember your constitution and your bill of rights
and never forget your

Declaration of Independence.

[Erika]

2. W went after the Taliban, even tho they'd given them 46 mil

Then they went after Iraq. Here comes the profits and civilians be damned. That's what W did. He bombed the hell out of Iraqi innocents and gave max profits of war costs to his buds, paid for by U.S. troops and our taxes. W will be impeached. It is just a matter of time. His OK of torture will be just another factor.

[IChing]

6. Maybe,

I heard a lot here tonight

If you don't know where you are going
any road will take you there.

[tech3149]

3. My sister was here last month

and she is the obsessive shopper. While looking through the DVD's I said that I'd love to buy it, but it was too expensive. Before she left she said they probably wouldn't watch it again and gave it to me. I've probably watched it 10 times since then. It's not just the entertainment value or MS Portman, but the frightening parallels to the world we live in. It gives me hope that we might actually see the same thing happen here and now to change the direction of our nation. In fact, I might watch it again this morning.

[Kiouni]

5. I recently read a book

by Gorbachev and in it he talks about how America is declining or falling as a super power. this is something that has hit me hard for me to accept. That we will never again be the sole leader in the world.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Gorbachev was pessimistic

Gorbachev was pessimistic about America's ability to survive as the sole superpower when the Soviet Union collapsed. He knew when he became Soviet leader that the level of military spending under Brezhnev was unsustainable and warned that the US should not expect to be able to maintain anything like it, either.

We never were the sole leader in the world. We weren't a superpower at all in the nineteenth century; we were isolationist between the two world wars; we were one of two superpowers in the Cold War; and the idea that we could maintain our status after the collapse of the Soviet Union was just nonsense. Somebody would come along and challenge us. What were we suppose to do to stop emerging nations from emerging?

The New American Century was just a lot of right wing hype, just like the Thousand Year Reich.

[ms liberty]

8. I watched V this weekend for the first time

I had to stop it midway through and take a break, I kind of freaked out. I was beginning to feel panicky about the parallels to real life. After I had a cig and got something to drink, I was ok but it took a few minutes. It was an awesomely great movie, I really loved it - but it also scared me. We're so close to that reality.

[bdamomma]

9. too bad that their tactic of DUMBING DOWN AMERICANS

has worked on so many people, anyone who has any intellectual traits must stop this reign of stupidness/ignorance/arrogance in this country.