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  • Monday, August 4, 2008 11:02 PM

    @NYShooter

    The US you and your forefathers imagined, is gone for ever.

    The Statue of Liberty which brought succor to so many millions of refugees and the words written beneath it have no meaning today.

    The First Republic is being slowly owned by corporate

    The Obama you and me believe will not lift a finger to stop it, because he himself is an agent of the same.

    I saw Smith Goes to Washington yesterday night and i wept for America.

    Are you the descendants of the brave who threw out boxes of tea over Boston harbor to protest taxes?

    Are you the same people who wrote those immortal words: "We the people..."

    Are you the same people who would rather give the shirt off your back to a defeated enemy and share your meals with him?

    Are you the same people who pioneered the Flower Power Generation?

    I weep for you.

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