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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:21 AM

    We Hold these truths to be self-evident ..

    that ALL mean are created equal.

    This means that the Pres.as an officeholder for the CIC-is still a person-and NOT and office by himself personally..

    which in turns means he is not above the law..

    It is also an abuse of power to install loyalists over competence..as CIC.

    So Kit B. assertion that the govt. is always right--is patently wrong..

    In fact the American public is usually many times smarter-and knows in fact, the propaganda of networks like Fox and talking points are being used...

    There's also that little fact that the POTUS (the man and office) have been consistenetly WRONG on every issue that presented itself in the last 8 yrs...so the secrecy and lack of transparency (Israeli govt. listnin?)only further added to public opinion that corruption, illegal activity werre being covered up as a result of the loyalists, POTUS himself- lack of reality.

    This cause a major breakdown in the public trust.

    This was not only for GW's decisions either...this was for all parts of govt enabling GW & the GOP to continue thier drunken-driving catastrophes of the US as a once-powerful nation..

    ie: both Houses-and Intel Coms which Feinstein/Rock served on).

    erosion of public trust..losing the propaganda world..is far-reaching: I hope Pres-elect Obama realizes this (in re; to prosecution of GW/Cheney/Yoo/Rummy/ Feith/Addington/Bybee.

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