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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 10:30 PM
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Excerpts From The Taking of America 1 2 3
Edited on Thu Mar-03-11 11:29 PM by Drew Richards
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THE TAKING OF AMERICA 1 2 3
or
The Oligarchy of Republicanism, Dominionism and Corporate Fascism in America
By Drew Richards

As I watch Republican Gov. Walker's allegedly rumored slimy underhanded financial mismanagement of Wisconsin through egregious tax deals to enrich the wealthy, the gutting of public citizens pay scale and services; the horrific attempts to dismantle the rights of public Workers to Collective Bargaining in Wisconsin and sell off all power generation in Wisconsin via no bid contracts, I am left with profound confusion and fear for our Country's Future.

How in this day and age could Politicians blatantly ignore the real Sources and Solutions to the Financial Crisis in our Nation, and then Declare War on their own People?

How could 90% of all News Sources seem to be in concert and collusion with this dismantling of the Middle Class?

How could WE allow a President (Bush) to allegedly it is rumored strip us of most of our Constitutional Rights and Privileges and then elect more of these Megalomaniacs who's grand Ideals are to finish off our Economy and force us all to live with NO Rights, Privileges or Minimum Wage?

Make no Mistake, THIS is their ultimate goal...Absolute Rule, To Rule us as an Oligarchy with Absolute Control over Policy, Rights and Wages...For All Time.

Where are the Champions of the Constitution and of WE THE PEOPLE?

Once you start looking at the Historical Progression of the "New" Republican Party it's not to hard to see...

Of the 10 commandments and 7 deadly Sins none is worse than Covet ness or GREED.

It is said (First Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament 1 Timothy 6:10)
The Love of Money is the Root of All Forms of Evil. I now believe that it's true.

Robert Reich recently pointed this out in rather stark terms:
"Republicans would rather go after Teachers and other Public Employees than have us look at the pay and taxes of Large Corporations, Wall Street Traders, Private-Equity Managers, and Heads of Hedge Funds -- many of whom wouldn't have their jobs today were it not for the giant Taxpayer-supported bailout".
"The deficit primarily has been caused by two unfunded Wars, Financial Deregulation, huge tax breaks to people who don't need it, the Wall Street bailout and an Insurance-company-written Medicare Part D prescription drug program".

"This year, 2011 Exxon Mobil, the most profitable corporation in the history of the world, is not paying a nickel in federal income taxes, despite having made $19 billion last year".

"And they are not alone, it is rumored allegedly that General Electric, Bank of America and Citigroup to name a few; and many other major Corporations are enjoying TAX FREE profits...
In 2005, one-quarter of Corporation -- large Corporations in America making Trillion's in revenue didn't pay a NICKEL in taxes."

In 2011 it is one-third of Corporations at an estimated tax revenue loss of 4-11 Trillion Per Year depending on whose estimate numbers you use.

And still Republicans want to reduce the Tax even more on Large Corporations...

And still Wall Street gives out Bonuses with Our Bailout Money...

But Services for the Poor must be cut and Workers Salaries and Rights must be stripped?

WHERE WERE YOU?

The Conservatives will tell you that all the country's problems would be solved if only working people of the USA would accept a Lower Standard of Living! they claim that it is UNREALISTIC, for we the American People, to enjoy the Standard of Living we have created over the past 200 years while the rest of the world maintains a lower standard of living...

Strip away all the rhetoric and theory and that's what their arguments really come down to.

I say that is Bull Pucky.

The Country's problems will be solved when we get rid of Tax Loopholes, actually Arrest and Seize Violators (and their assets) of our Financial and Constitutional laws and change Corporate Regulations to demand that all Corporations and the Wealthy pay a equitable amount in State and Federal Taxes.

it's 2011 and this evil Oligarchy is attempting to strip the American Citizens Current Standard of Living, Rights of Free Speech, and Rights to Due Process and Collective Bargaining...They are trying to tell you the Financial Collapse is YOUR fault and you must suffer and pay with your Individual Rights, Wealth and Lives.

When will we say Enough?

Migration of 80% of the Wealth is still being flushed to the top 2% of the Populous.
Conservative Congress has again stripped all incentives for Alternative Fuel Sources.
Oil, Gas and Coal still receiving massive Financial Government Subsidies...
Repeated Harassment, Physical Attacks and Murders of Abortion Doctors with no apparent Law Enforcement Protection or Investigations...
Corruption and Collapse of Securities and Mortgage Markets. Boom!
Corporate Birch Society, Republicanism and Dominionism create allegedly rumored Domestic Socio-Economic Divisions and Diversions.
Attacks on segments of Society. Illegal's and the Poor (Secure our boarders cry)To make people forget the war, its Expense and Domestic Insolvency.
The blatant stacking of the Justice System with allegedly rumored unqualified Bush jr. appointees.
Lack of any Prosecution of Individuals for illegal War Justification and Torture.
Lack of Prosecution for Rape and Theft in a Battle Zone.
Attacks on Middle Class, Class Warfare.
Verbal Attacks, Salary and Benefit cuts on Working Class Employees and their Collective Bargaining Rights.
Threats of the use of Police to arrest our own Citizens legally protesting.
Threats of the use of Military force against our own Citizens legally protesting.
Union Busting.
Reclassifying Rape
Reclassification of Pregnancy Miscarriage as Murder.
Stripping of Citizens Constitutional Protections.
Attempt to STEAL, Gut and End our Unemployment Insurance.
Elevation of Corporations Rights OVER the Rights of Individual Citizens (Citizens United Decision)
Removal of the Fairness Doctrine in Broadcasting.
Potential Total Control and Manipulation of the Media.

BLOCKED AND DEFUNDING OF:
Unemployment Insurance Fund
Worker's Compensation Insurance Fund
Universal Medical Care
Public Option
Medicare for poor
Medicaid for poor
Planned Parenthood
NEA
SEC
EPA
FCC
USDA
FDA
CFPB
DOI
DOL

All these Services and Agencies Mandates are to keep us safe and to lend a helping hand from Poverty...

Threats of Forced Shutdown of Our Government if Conservatives don't get their way...

MY GOD WHERE WERE YOU?

Let me hand it over to someone that explains it best...
He was correct in 1775 and just as correct today in 2011...
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
..."They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an
adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the
next year?...

..."But as for me, give me liberty or give me death"!

THIS IS THE TIME...NOW...NOW is the time of Fruition, of the Corporate Republican Dominion's attempt to destroy Secular Humanism, the United States Constitution and rip us from the Age of Reason back to the Age of Darkness.

Evil is not one large entity but a collection of countless small depravities foisted on your persons and dignity by greedy, selfish, frightened little Men.

Living under the Hyper-Religious, Corporate, Republican Dominionist Order of Greed... you have traded the enrichment of vision and innovation for the gray fog of mediocrity and obedient subservience, the fertile inspiration of striving and growth, for the mindless stagnation and slow decay of your Rights and Freedoms.

You have traded your Rights and Freedom not even for a place to sleep for you and your family but worse, you have traded your Rights and Freedom for the spoken empty feelings and words of this Oligarchy that you deserve a place, but only if you bow to their God of GREED and are deemed worthy of their regard...otherwise... hurry up and die to reduce the Surplus Population.

No Society can be more important than the Individuals that compose that Society or else you ascribe Supreme Importance, not to Man, but to the Large Corporations, the Wealthy or the Fanatically Religious, to execute any notion that strikes their fancy or whim, at a never ending cost of your lives.

REASON and REALITY are the only means to just laws; Covet ness, GREED, Mindless Wishes or Blind Religious Faith, if given Sovereignty, become Deadly Masters of us All.

Surrendering your ability to REASON and RATIONALIZE to Blind Faith, Religious Indoctrination, Conservatism, Republicanism, Corporatism, Dominionism or in trust to these selfish arrogant MEN to govern us wisely, sanctions their use of force to Enslave you, Degrade you and Murder you.

You ALL have the power to decide how you will live your lives and to determine the path of your future.
This is your life and the lives of your fellow Citizens to live as you choose, or be subjugated to nothing but degradation and death as slaves to the Ruling Class.

This is what the Oligarchy of Conservatives, Republicans, the Religious Right, the Wealthy and Large Corporations are taking away from you LIFE...

And this is what the Oligarchy offers all of you...DEATH.

These actions stretch back nearly 30 years, The New Republicans, the New Religious Right, Large Corporations and the Wealthy bury them from your consciousness allegedly through misdirection and propaganda, and it stays buried until you yourselves dig it up. They fear our collective knowledge of the atrocities perpetrated in their name or in the name of their God against their own People.

And they have a right to Fear,

Because there is a Whole Nation of People that Believe in Mankind's ability to Reason and Rationalize and still have Faith in their God, the Constitution, and the Founding of our Government on a Self-Ruled Citizen Government... rather than being ruled by an alleged Corporate Fascist Oligarchy of the Religious and Wealthy.

This Oligarchy of Dominionism, Republicanism and Corporatism are doing their best to kill the Planet, Themselves and to Enslave Us.
This Oligarchy doesn't care about Life, so WE must,
We have to be better than they are in our Regard for One Another, the Planet and even our Regard for Those Who Oppose Us.
We have to be better at securing the Vote and maintaining the control of our Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches of Government away from these petty greedy little Men; so that Rational Laws and Reason are always of Ultimate Importance in Governing the Nation as a Whole.

So that they know that REASON and RATIONALITY Rule our lives and our Nation...not Greed, Wealth, Power by Force of Arms or Religious Pedantry.

We MUST reclaim our Country and Reaffirm that the Constitution is the Supremacy of the Law for our Country and ALL it's Peoples.

We must choose Life.

Somebody has to speak for WE THE PEOPLE.

You are all reading this for different reasons,

but, you have all come to the same place, so I am going to ask more of you, maybe everything you are or have,

As sure as I know this, I know that again here in the US or maybe another Nation, in Five or maybe Ten years, These same greedy bastards will swing back to the belief that they should rule us all for the Betterment Of Society...

and I do not hold to this Belief,

No more keeping silent and letting others control and subvert this great Nation.

I will defy this vicious Oligarchy with my Time, Wealth, Breath and Life if necessary, and I am asking you to choose to do the same.

Recall and Remove ALL Republican Representatives everywhere, Local, State and National, repeal their Laws, REMOVE ,through legal means, their allegedly rumored bought and paid Judges, Supreme Court Judges and Government Employed Lawyers, Prosecute all the violators of our Constitutional Laws and strip them of their ill gotten Gains, Wealth and Power.

RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION, THE RULE OF LAW, AND THE SUPREMACY OF SELF RULE BY WE THE PEOPLE.

In God We may Trust,

But, We still must stand up Together, for Ourselves, and our Children,

As a Rational Society

And, As a Secular Nation.

Drew Richards

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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 10:31 PM
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1. Article link if interested
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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 10:49 PM
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2. Ideals for propagation?
If anybody has any ideals how to get this out to the Protester I am all for it.
I think this might let them know some of us are with them...

Thx, Drew
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 10:53 PM
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3. The corruption & the utter lack of regard for law & for the non-rich has been
going on too long. Watching the good people in Wisconsin -- now, also in Ohio & New Jersey -- buck up against a despotic governor has shown me the people have had enough. The corruption & dishonesty have reached their pinnacle.

It will be an interesting presidential campaign in the coming year. People are going to have lots of questions & aren't going to buy the usual rhetoric as before. I believe with this new wave of teabaggers elected governor, more people have caught on to the war on the middle class & poor.
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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 10:56 PM
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4. Electronic Voting Machines
Yeah but what are we as a Nation going to do about the rigged Electronic Voting machines that do not show your recorded vote?

Only thing I can think of is demand paper ballots...gonna be a mess again.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:01 PM
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5. Discussed that with a friend
He could hardly believe.

But he did say if that was true (massive vote theft) "...we are doomed.." Yep.

We have the best government money can buy. Bought and sold. We are their slaves.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:08 PM
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6. 12 Commandments?
Hmmmm....


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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:28 PM
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7. omg good catch I fat fingers in edits.
10 commandments
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:28 PM
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8. I have to kick this and recommend it!
That's probably one of the best assessments of what we are facing and where we are.

Those who have been watching and keeping track can feel a sense of urgency and find it very hard to avoid the gravity of our situation. This is going way beyond opinion, rhetoric or casual politics. This is one big collective slap in the face with a cup of hot coffee tossed in your lap as a chaser. It does not look like we can avoid the implications of what, along with other factions, looks like a corporate takeover, lock, stock and barrel.

Here we have a show-stopping distraction in our midst and it is going to take center stage for vast numbers of us. I imagine that people who only had a more casual, bits-and-pieces idea of what this article conveys, would probably be deeply affected and effected by such a stark presentation of our rather unsettling and threatening predicament. There is just no way to walk away from this, hoping it will sort itself out or just fade away. At the rate that the attacks are accelerating and homing in, its clear that the dismantling and ensuing domination is getting closer and may soon be in our very faces.

Please share the article with others as it may be a rather patriotic thing to do now. I just felt like using that word in the real and heart-felt way that it had. Remind those who prefer the comforts of denial, (and you can't blame them) that knowing what is happening to you and why helps to overcome the fear and build more courage. Those in denial or prone to apathy are vulnerable and sudden shocks can immobilize and drain you.

Solidarity!
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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:34 PM
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9. Thx should I move it to Politics?
Thx hope you had time to read full article I track the Republican nightmare for the past 30 years...granted not in great detail because then I would have to rewrite and publish it as a book i'm afraid.

Should i repost this to politics? or leave it here in general?
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 11:43 PM
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10. Yes I read it in full!
I think it is fine here in GD.

Thanks for your time and thoughts.
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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-11 12:26 PM
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11. Political Fears
Edited on Fri Mar-04-11 01:05 PM by Drew Richards
I think the one thing out of all of this I find most frightening is the fact that the latest gallup poll shows 63% of the country oppose the taking away of bargaining rights. But we are being portrayed as a small minority on ABC NBC CBS CNN HLN FOX...the only channel I see in solidarity is MSNBC with the exception of course of Morning Joe I (I hate liberals) Scarlboro...
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