Can anyone with half a brain really think that one person can change the course of the future of any country?  We, the people must take a stand and back the corporate and political interests into the corner and fight for our very lives. This is not a game, computer simulated or otherwise, this is our very lives. The idea that a politician is “for” the people is absurd and completely foolish. I, also quote Louise, “If you’re not paranoid, you’re not paying attention.” We all laughed when 1984 came around and nothing really happened, yet here’s the shrub, and we’re now only finding out that he instituted many of the so-called security measures well before Sept. 11, 2001. He is absolutely the most irresponsible person that has ever sat in the office of the president of the USA. Corporate welfare has never been higher, than under this presidency.  All this while the people, fall under mountains of debt from the immoral and illegal wars that are being perpetrated, “in the name of security.” The three branches of government no longer represent the people but the special interests that control the government and all aspects of the bureaucracy that have taken over the control of our lives.  The acts of the Rockefellers in the suppression of a union in Colorado in 1914, are abominable to say the least, but for the US to back another countries wholesale slaughter of their unionists, while proclaiming at home that we are the land of the free and the home of the brave, is absolutely ludicrous and beggars the question, What as people are we going to do about our government to hold it accountable for the crimes against humanity that have been committed in our name? If I know my history in any way, nothing will happen to those people who have committed the worst atrocities imaginable and still commit them to this day.  In conclusion, prepare yourselves for the United States of Fascist America, for soon the bill HR 1955 will pass the Senate and become the law of the land. Then lets see if sites such as this exist, which by force of logic try to change the minds of those in office and the people who are supposed to be the electorate.  For you realize of course, sites such as this are and will be outlawed under that bill. There will be no more voice of the people and no way for the people to let others know that things such as this are and will be happening on a more regular basis.

I’m glad someone in America has a memory! Nothing changes in this system of brutal corporate dictatorship and yes, workers will be murdered and oppressed and needless wars will be waged to defend profits and corporate interests until power is wrenched from thes greedy bastards and their murderous system once and for all. Today’s Columbian and yesterdays miners will eventually be you and I if we don’t unite to defeat the monstrosity that threatens us all.

This is an area for the exchange of thoughts. If it is so misleading as to warrant shame, then explain what you mean.

Our founding fathers didn’t come here for religious freedom. They came for and indulged in these very same tactics, which is why it continues.

And, I would agree that the Great Experiment has been overwhelmingly contaminated.

And yes, the only recourse is to prosecute those who have and continue to perpetrate these high crimes.

However, where the hell do we even start? We see right here, that these thugs have been at this for centuries and decades. The Clintons are right smack dab in the middle of the Columbia thing, and so are in bed with the Bushes, as they’ve ALWAYS been, but we’re only discovering NOW, just how much. (Or, at least I’m only just now discovering that). The Uribe Thug-ocracy is only one of MANY that the US Admin supports, (we don’t wanna leave out Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and China) and it just goes on and on. 

As for the paranoia, I’ll quote what Louise reminded us of long ago, “If you’re not paranoid, you’re not paying attention.”

David, Colorado mines, as with the Molly McGuire’s, is only a part of the story. How about the recent mine in Arizona and before that Virginia? not beatings or kill-squads, but with inspectors being paid not to find violation.
With NAFTA, once again Ford Motor Co. is in muck and mire with union organizers being killed Legally in Mexico, reminiscent of: 

In the infamous Ford Massacre of 1932, thousands of unemployed Ford workers marched on the car maker’s Dearborn plant, only to be machine-gunned by Henry Ford’s private army. For the rest of the decade, Detroit was the center of the Black Legion, a fascist organization affiliated with the Klan--but the most important labor struggles of the era were fought and won in its factories.
At times I wonder if the Amerikan flag is only a symbol of Corporate greed and corruption of a government gone bad.
Senor Bush did let the tongue slip when he uttered “ One World Order” But than again, I’m only a conspiracy theorist.

It is high time we Apologize to those who have been berated and demoralized by the lable “conspiracy theorists’.
Granted I’m not ready to do so for those who think Reptiles rule our World- although the analogy fits.
Just because we have not seen AmericaNs lined Up andshot-does not mean there is not a concerted effort to otherwise destroy US.
What truely is left of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence from Tyranny?
Honestly, What is left of Our Democracy to hand down to our descendants? Economically we are Indentured Slaves forced & connned in to debt we never agreed to and certainly never Cosign for? Never being about to get out of our debt, because we must use credit to survive.We’ve been bought and sold on the World Auction block,and our children are mounting the steps as we speak. Our Founding Fathers did not come here for only religious freedom, they can here and fought for ecomonic freedom. And we have allowed it to seep into our culture & economy and it has now taken Control of all they fought & died for. The great Expereiment has been contaminated, thus destryed.
Our only recourse is to Prosecute those who have intentionally committed crimes against our nation- Domestically, thus eliminating the influence of their Foreign sponsors.High Crimes is still on the Books- wE must use these Laws to Regain OUR country and Honor those who gave so much to grant US such rights & Freedoms

It is perfectly logically that the philosophical child of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, would want yet another legal camouflage to help a pro-American dictator, destroy valid union organization,and help American corporations exploit workers overseas in virtual or actual slave-labor conditions.  RR followed exactly the same policies, even acting to destroy American unions by: firing PATCO to make sure NO federal employee union dared try to FORCE the governmen to treat them fairly, and by giving tax breaks to companies to export American union jobs overseas for far cheaper, non unionized labor.

That was 3.5 million manufacturing jobs RR arranged to ship out, and almost every one was a union job.

David Sirota’s article reveals how the nature of power changes the cast, but the play is essentially the same. Which reminds me: Don’t throw away your Charles Dickens! The recent money grubbing antics on the part of Walmart, the populist joke that is the Team Clinton campaign, the misappropriating of Martin Luther King’s words by Barack Obama; make it all seem like some weird chapter in Bleak House.
It is terrible to realize that what passes for rational thought in public discourse, is in fact, a series of strung together emotional gut punches that have very little meaning except to keep things confused. Thus words such as victory and security become a push button code of behavior. The so called “FUD” model, used so effectively by the Microsoft Corporation: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. Are you sure you want to think?
It is ironic that the right wing members of the ownership class complain about a big government “nanny state”, but see no contradiction in protecting the most venal of interests: the corporate welfare state. That is something that George Bush and Nancy Pelosi can agree upon.