Has America finally WOKEN UP?
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Yes, my brother. Breath in the night. It feels good to have finally woken from this nightmare.\nKarl Rove, sleep good, for tomorrow you will have all kinds of diarrhea!
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Not lately.  Illegal war in Iraq, illegal spying without warrants, illegally detainment in Guantanemo without due process, lack of separation of church and state, denying rights to gay people.
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WAKE UP AMERICAN CITIZENS\n\nTHIS QUESTION SHOULD OPEN THE EYES OF SOME OF YOU
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Good question - when will Americans realize that they do need other people?  When will Americans realize that the world doesn't stop at their border?  When will Americans realize that they need to be accountable for their place in the world?  When will Americans stop being such stupid, ignorant people?  When will Americans realize that no super-power lasts forever, and they fun in the sun will end?\n\nThe answer my friend is blowing in the wind...
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Yes...just one of many "concerns". More is happening than most people realize. The US is,  of course,  working on all of it continuously. The task would be easier I'm sure....with less whining and complaining from it's own citizens.
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I don't know what your talking about! The problem here in America, is that America is under a one sided party rule, and a Dictatorship with George Bush. There isn't anyone to oppose them right now; because the Democrats can't pass any legislation without it being pushed down. It's all a waist of time until America wakes up and brings back a Democracy to the American people. These people that are in charge of our Government are warmongers and terrorists like Adolf Hitler was. They are even following quite a few of Hitlers ideologies with rule of the Country.
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We need to finish what we started, not just show up for the party and leave the cleanup for someone else.  I doubt there will be a full military pullout for a long time.  Personal opinion aside, if the US is truly a government of the people; then, we will be there as long as the majority of Americans believe we should be.  A silent voice is an uncounted voice.
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nobody is taking over america .. but the classic america that our founding fathers gave us is being slowly eroded away because people are uninformed, ignorant, and braindead from endless hours of tv and media propaganda being pounded into them while corrupt govt officials cash in and pass laws to prevent you from being able to do anything about it when you finally wake up ....
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No, I think we need to wake up again. 9/11 woke us up. Now we are sleeping again! If you get my point?
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Help?? lol of course! they are helping themselves...  America (the government) is the greatest terrorist, Hypocrite, atheist in the world from the beginning of it's existence (may be along with Britain.)\nThe people of America however are just sleep, that's all, Lot's of good people! Not realizing what evil is their government capable of!
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I would hope that people wake up and see that when you have one party so dominating that it is a threat to our way of life. This country and its constitution is set up with a system of checks and balances and right now it is out of balance and there are no checks and the Repuglicans are taking advantage of that to set civil and human rights back 50 years.
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and now it's time to wake up!!!
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I am somewhat hopeful that america will wakeup. But we are on a slippery slope \n\nThe most direct way to authorize preventive law enforcement is to redefine liability broadly so that authorities can sweep up large numbers of people without having to prove that individuals have engaged in specific harmful conduct. In our history, this has been accomplished in two principal ways—by targeting people for what they say before they act and for their associations. \n\nFrom WWI to the japanese internments in WWII , mccarththyism, vietnam era fbi files on anyone who opposed the war, we have a history of allowing the government to restrict our civil liberties and interfere with protected free speech. Each time we recover to relaize the dangers , restrict the governments abilities anfd each time we forget and let history repeat itself. Perhaps if the midterm elections result in a republican loss of the House or Senate, we will be able this time to nip it in the bud. The longer that Bush & Co. remain in power, the more damage will be done.\n\nIn the immortal words of Ben Franklin - THOSE WILLING TO GIVE UP FREEDOMS FOR SECURITY WILL HAVE NEITHER.
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I am with you girl, education is the key! It's all really obvious where the Bush administration has gone within the last 6 years. America will regain its self soon with the change of Congress. I am hoping for the start of quite a few investigations to move forward, with a new Congress.
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Everyone is talking about it...democracy is ending.  No one seems to care enough to create the dissention it's going to take to get back the freedoms we've lost over this government's response to "terrorists".  In that vein, are the Democrats asleep in congress? It's obvious there is some kind of concerted effort here to change the constitution.  Bush is redefining his job description without regard for it.\n\n  When ANY city ends putting out news like New Orleans did in this mornings' newspaper-all American cities should take note.  When anyone is held against their will and denied representative council it happens to each one of us.  Corporations cooperating with and giving the government whatever they want and sneaking them privileged information about individuals is a giant red flag. \n\nThousands of our country's young men have sacrificed their lives in several wars so that we could keep the rights that are being taken away from us by this present administration...and that would be an abomination if we let it happen.
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I believe that most Americans are under the illusion that they truly have free speech, true democracy. etc..   Compare the actions of previous actions of dominant empires throughout history.  Have we transformed or are Americans fooled by a cleaver rouse.
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This is a thoughtful question..........Yes, this is a real possibility. America has always stood for the premise of what our country was founded by our forefathers.  Today we have so many people that want to enjoy the "freedom" of our Nation but do not want to accept the responsibilities. Many people do not hold to the same beliefs of the Bill of Rights or the Constitution...........they think of self and the dollar.  Many of the same 7 reasons Rome fell exist in the United States today.  Others have touched on the reasons, this weakens our nation. We need to take back the strengths that we held true in the 20th century and prior years.