Intro: "Like many of you, I was shocked to learn that Senator Scott Brown is supporting the Blunt amendment, a dangerous measure being pushed by Senate Republicans that would allow insurance companies and employers to deny health care coverage to anyone for any reason, just when people need it most."
Elizabeth Warren pushes back against Scott Brown's support of the Blunt amendment allowing insurance companies and employers to deny health care coverage. (photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty)
An Attack on All of Us
16 February 12
ike many of you, I was shocked to learn that Senator Scott Brown is supporting the Blunt amendment - a dangerous measure being pushed by Senate Republicans that would allow insurance companies and employers to deny health care coverage to anyone for any reason, just when people need it most.
I was even more shocked Senator Brown emailed his supporters just a couple hours ago attacking me personally - and basically everyone who opposes this radical bill - claiming that I had assumed "the mantle of oppressor."
Let me be clear: I support President Obama's solution to make sure that religious institutions are not forced to cover contraception but that women can get the health care they need. This new bill that Scott Brown is supporting is not about religious institutions - it's about something very different. It would allow any employer or insurance company to refuse to cover any person for any treatment. Not only is it an attack on women's ability to get the vital health care we need, it is an attack on every one of us.
Think about what this will mean to you and your family. Are you pregnant? Elderly? Disabled? Do you have a chronic problem like diabetes or heart disease? Do you go for routine screening tests or rely on daily medications? Any medical test, treatment or prescription your boss or HMO doesn't want to pay for could suddenly become morally objectionable - and under this amendment, your employer or insurance company would not have pay for it. You would lose your health care coverage.
Is this Scott Brown's idea of standing by the middle class? Is this what he means when he says he wants to make this the "People's Seat?" He wants to help families by letting employers and insurance companies take away health care coverage?
This election is about whose side you're on.
The economics around health care are huge for families. Skyrocketing costs have been a big factor in the financial squeeze facing middle-class families.
Despite all that, Scott Brown wants to give even more power to corporations and insurance companies to deny basic health care coverage and undermine a fundamental principle of the Affordable Care Act - namely that everyone in this country deserves a basic standard of health care coverage.
Right now, while Scott Brown is fighting to eliminate health care reform, I'm fighting for families to keep that coverage. I'll fight for it now, and you can be sure I'll keep right on fighting for families in the Senate.
Massachusetts families deserve better - and they need health care. Stand with me and join this fight.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Elizabeth Warren
For information on the Elizabeth Warren campaign for United States Senate go here.
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Nationwide we have illegal immigrant gangs engaged in drug smuggling. There are 300 Mexican illegal aliens on death row for heinous murders on our soil. It is not just the cost in human life, but also the fear this causes and the real costs in trying and incarcerating these illegal alien criminals. Elizabeth Warren's response: Nothing. Do absolutely nothing about this, not even support Secure Communities, a weak measure but at least a start.
Whatever his problems, Scott Brown has his head screwed on right when it comes to Secure Communities. When is Warren going to stop looking at things from the standpoint of illegal aliens, and start looking at them from the standpoint of US citizens? A vote for Warren is a vote for non-enforcement of immigration laws, and the crime it is causing in Massachusetts.
The Blunt Amendment, Secure Communities Act and so many other current right-wing "AGIN" movements are only designed to protect the 1% that owns OUR government from regulation by antagonizing your biases and fears ... but my observation probably can't overcome the fact that you have already drunk the kool aid.
Why? Because Obamacare is the failed and regressive MA plan on steroids. Democrats voted for Brown and made calls to other Dems to do the same. He was the 41st voted needed to filibuster Obamacare, and MA residents were trying to save the rest of the country from this.
Dems on Capitol Hill were in a panic the night he won. That is why Pelosi used reconciliation to ram Obamacare through against the will of the American people and also gave MA voters the middle finger.
Don't think for one minute that 98 percent of MA residents have affordable access to care and choice of docs/hosptials or that they can afford to even use the gov't-approved coverage because they CAN'T. And they can't afford the tax penalties enforced by the MA Dept of Revenue if they are uninsured. Failure to pay the penalty on time, in full results in interest and penalties, and eventually if not paid, garnishment of paychecks, seizure of bank acc'ts and liens on property. Same thing that happens when you don't pay your taxes.
And, btw, 98 percent is a bogus figure. You need to look at the number of disenrollments per month from plans (subsidized and private market) which often outweigh enrollments. Per the 2010 MA census, 370,000 were uninsured and that number doesn't include people who don't bother to fill out the census.
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MA health care costs and premiums increase each year including subsidized plans, but MA state and nationals stick to the talking points as does Elizabeth Warren.
Re Obamacare subsidized plans, you will be told how much you can afford to pay based on prior year income. I read that cheapest gov't approved coverage being discussed presently is 60/40. Don't recall deductible. Affordability is based on prior year, so if current year is better, it's payback time, but cheer up: paybacks are capped.
If eligible for expanded Medicaid, no other choice except a tax penalty for remaining uninsured IF you aren't auto-enrolled against your will. Law not clear on auto-enrollment. If dumped into Medicaid, you're subject to Medicaid regs which include a federally-mandated estate recovery program for all states that receive fed Medicaid funding. (OBRA 1993) So people who use Medicaid benefits at age 55 and up will be getting a mandated collateral loan.
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Can't afford the premium gov't says you can afford? In MA you can file an appeal if in dire straits: house burned down, spousal abuse, paying off medical debt, other catastrophic events. Waiver is very temporary, so you have to get your act together quickly. If you apply again, medical debt in first appeal is not allowable even if you are still paying it off.
So before you pay for food, lodging, heat, loans, utilities, etc., you will pay for health insurance or an IRS enforced tax penalty should you choose to heat and eat instead. Untenable choices that you may need to revisit each yea your income increases.
Only the tip of the iceberg re MA plan and Obamacare. So you may want to start praying that the latter is repealed. A few may be helped but how many is it OK to exploit in order to benefit a few?
As for the Blunt amendment re moral conscience and medical care, do you know that Ted Kennedy put forth a bill that said more or less the same: religious beliefs and moral conviction or moral conflict? Was in the 70s or 80s. Can't remember which.
If a Dem does this, it's OK, but if a Republican does the same, it's not OK?
D's wanted O'care as it is. Saw a chart: Obama took close to $2 mil from insurance. Baucus (D-MT) took huge $. Also other D's. Baucus headed committee hearings - had 13 docs & nurses arrested for standing up & asking why singlepayer wasn't on table while Kerry made snied remarks that were caught on tape & went viral. S-payer not on table Obama's doing. He was working for Karen Ignani, CEO of AHIP and Billy Tauzin at Big Pharma.
Baucus hired Liz Fowler from Wellpoint (BCBS) to write his bill. Kennedy hired John McDonough, former CEO of MA Health Care for Some to be his sr nat'l health care advisor. McD was locked in w/ MA Connector (highly-paid, politically-appointed bureaucrats with ties to the industry) so supported the MA plan despite apparent failures & harms. Then went to D.C.
Jon Kingsdale, former Connector CEO taught (indoctrinated) K's h-care staffers about MA plan but no MA resident being harmed was asked to participate - not part of the agenda.
All MA nat'l & state D's looked the other way & continued the party line: MA great success. Some MA people trying to get truth out wrote to Maddow, Matthews, Schultz & Olberman but were ignored. MSM bought & pd for.
R's ran from it for political reasons. They just made loud R noises per usual.
So, yeah, you missed a lot. Get out of the Ds-are-great-&-Rs-are-bad box. On Capitol Hill, they all play good cop, bad cop while dining at the same trough.
Nicolas Guaman, illegal immigrant from Ecuador, who got drunk and killed Matt Denice in Milford, MA on August 20, 2011. Bianca Contreras, illegal immigrant from Guatemala, who ran over and killed Scott Coxall, in November 2011, then fled the scene. Isaias Naranjo, who got drunk and rear-ended a car being driven by Mass. State Representative in May 2010, resulting in serious injuries to several people in Moran's vehicle. The case of the Central American who raped the girl in the wheel chair back in 2002 is so notorious you would have to be living in a cave not to have heard about it.
Warren was asked about Secure Communities after this serious of horrendous incidents (which included another one in which a Brazilian illegal immigrant butchered his girlfriend with a kitchen knife), and she said that she does NOT support the law (and it is a MANDATORY LAW from ICE, although some morally superior politicians do not feel like implementing it).
Who is the "sick puppy"? Someone who sees this stuff going on and demands the law be enforced, or someone who is oblivious to it and charges racism when the matter is raised? The law is the law. By what right do people like Deval Patrick (and Warren, if she is elected) refuse to implement it, when they take an oath of office that requires that they do? Are they above the law?
you want to talk about illegals, that's one topic. If you want to
talk about murders, etc, that's another topic.
Now, read about health care for women, oh oh..
But what, I wonder, do you think of Professor Warren's point here? Are you in favor of Blunt amendment? Or can you find ways to attack her here as well?
Rather, "SCREWED" has more to do with what Scott Brown, REPUBLICANS and the Chatholic Bishops are trying to do to the American People.
By the way, Check out the Jails and see if you can get a head count of Non-aliens and Mexicans who have committed crimes that go way pass the ones you have outlined here.
Health Reform will help you with the purchase of your medication so that you can become stablized and lucid again.
Wow! Can someone please plug this guy back into reality? Is he doing what Chomsky warned against: sitting in a locked room with the TV on 24/7?
If we listen to the corporate media, we'd think we're being taken over by little green men from Mexico or 'Arabia' or China!!! Get real dude - the crazies are on TV!
No, I am not sitting in a locked room, watching TV. I just read the papers, and see what I see around me here in Massachusetts. And I know this will amaze the self-righteous leftists on this site, but I am not alone; what I am saying is a majority opinion both here in this state and in the United States, and it is why Secure Communities was instituted, BY PRESIDENT OBAMA, in the first place.
Elizabeth Warren is a terrible choice for Senate - just another person who does not want to enforce the most basic protections for US citizens, just like Teddie boy and John Kerry and Barney Frank. And I am no fan of Scott Brown either, but he is better than either Martha Coakley or Elizabeth Warren on issues like this, which are common sense to the average person whose brain has not been rotted by excessive reading of Noam Chomsky and "The Nation".
". . . like all Rs who show a hinder gentler side?"
How about Obama who lied his way in to the White House and has continued where Bush left off and also done worse things?
How about all the Dems who support the endless fake war on terror and bombing every country on the planet while drones kill innocent kids and other civilian
How about the payroll tax cut that is FICA paid by your employer and you so they can all claim SS is broke and get rid of Social Security?
Have you seen Obama's budget with $360 bil - yes, BILLION - in cuts including Medicare and Medicaid when Obamacare expands Medicaid and seniors are having problems paying for Medicare Parts B and D with the freaking donut hole?
Or is all of that OK wiht you b/c they are Dems?
It's a one-party system disguised as two to keep the 99% divided b/c they know a house divided cannot stand. If you support OWS, remember OWS is not for any party. They are for the people. They are us.
The Blunt amendment calls it moral conscience. Same thing.
So, if a Democrat writes such an amendment, it's OK with you, but if a Republican does this, it's not OK?
Warren is just another politician trying to get elected. She will not be a breath of fresh-air. She doesn't even have a policy regarding health care - just some mumbo-jumbo talking points that are basically meaningless.
I won't be voting for her b/c of that.
And when asked what her stand is on the recently signed NDAA? Well, no response.
Who will you be voting for in the next election: Scott Brown? Or, are you refering to the Presidential race she's not competing in?
Could you give us some information about the Ted Kennedy, like a link that's not from a right-wing site.
No Warren. She supports Obamacare. Jill Stein for prez. D's + R's = 1-party system working for Wall St.
Brown's win in MA = referendum on health care reform. MA dems voted for him, called other dems to do same. He was vote 41 to filibuster O'care. MA wanted to save their fellow Americans. Coakley was vote 60 Sen. dems needed to pass it. O flew to BLUE state MA to rally for her. Brown's win is why Pelosi used reconciliation to ram O'care through.
O'care modeled on failed & regressive MA plan that has adversely affected many & is unsustainable - showed this in year 1. When more $ is needed, comes out of pockets of people O said he wants to help. Higher premiums ea. yr., benefits cut, networks reduced while you have IRS-enforced tax penalty hanging over your head if not insured. Byzantium sinkhole for most of 99%. Some may benefit. How many is it OK to exploit?
Income goes up, premium goes up - plus annual increases by insurance leeches. Only tip of iceberg. If mandate in O'care not repealed, fasten seatbelt.
Am not right wing. K not all he's cooked up to be. People call MA plan Romneycare but K worked w/ him per R's public testimony to MA Joint Committee. They worked to get federal 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Waiver to fund MA plan. K kept cheerleading even when he knew it was failing & harming people. Hired a MA player to concoct his O'care bill & O had a MA spinmeister, Gruber, work with Sibelius.
The quotation attributed to B. Franklin has been mangled through time however all variants are true:
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
Meanwhile, all these efforts by repugnican thugs are just meant to denigrate women and their health needs. I trust that the mothers of these "men" are really proud of their actions. Is this how their religious beliefs teach them to "honor" their parents?
I will say it again: A vote for Elizabeth Warren is a vote for someone who refuses to do her part to enforce immigration law. We have seen what the results of that are in Massachusetts in the last few months.
And saying that it is not right-wing, fascist drivel. Massachusetts is a state where the morally superior Governor Deval Partick has refused to implement a mandatory federal law aimed at removing illegal alien criminals, and Warren supports that stance. And that despite the fact that a large majority of Massachusetts residents have said again in again in public opinion polls that they want Security Communities enforced here, just as US citizens nationwide have done. If that is fascist, then 65% of US citizens are fascist.
Elizabeth Warren should review her priorities, and also brush up on constitutional law. A mandatory federal law is not a matter of choice. It is part of THE LAW, and elected officials take an oath to uphold the law.
It's easy to see where you get this "stuff". The more obvious question is why "THIS" stuff gets your animus up - inasmuch as more than 10 times the number killed at Ground Zero on 9-11 die on America's highways every year, but you choose to focus on a couple of specific cases.
Most of us know that you are fed this "directed" poison by clever folks who have some other axe to grind. Think tort reform, fraudulent voting, 'right to work' laws, "Obamacare" 'sales taxes' on house sales, Hawaii vacations for welfare recipients, "job killing" health and safety regulations, job killing EPA restrictions on air and water pollution.
Who do you think benefits from your angry display of 'scientific' analysis and 'source' quoting, your 'forwarded' e-mails and angry finger pointing? If you were willing to look and analyze rather than react and rant, you MIGHT note that the beneficiaries of your efforts are the drug and hospital industry, large scale employers (who haven't yet outsourced 'your' jobs), insurance industry moguls and Wall Street financial wizards - all folks who probably do NOT deserve support for anything they do that benefits you.
By the way, "ICE prioritizes the removal of criminal aliens..." The "Secure Communities" process is NOT a law, it is a communication agreement between federal, state and local law enforcement. Your "facts" are STILL just a game being played on you.
Fact: These are not isolated cases, there are thousands of Americans who have been killed by illegal immigrants, and you can easily verify this on-line, where you can find names and descriptions of their deaths. Fact: We have had a spate of such cases here in Massachusetts, and I cited them; and I do not need to be "fed" such "stuff", since it is reported in the Boston Globe and on every local network when it happens. Fact: Elizabeth Warren was asked about Secure Communities in the wake of these incidents, and she has refused to support it.
Secure Communities is not a law in and of itself, it is a program, but it is a program within the framework of existing federal law, and that is the point. And it is not optional for states and localities. It is mandatory, as you would know if you had followed the back and forth between the Obama Administration and the Deval Patrick administration here in Massachusetts.
And guess what? It is overwhelmingly popular. I guess this last fact is irrelevant to the impotent left, which is always looking for some surrogate proletariat to lead in the coming revolution, and too busy mooning over Noam Chomsky's latest screed or the latest issue of "The Nation" to actually inform itself about what concerns the average person in the US actually thinks and wants. Fine, go back to your set of "facts", in your Little Impotent Left On-Line Utopia.
Rather, the Britebart/Rove/FOX/emBLAZEned/ Limbaugh/ Beck shitstorm machine has you on a speed dial e-mail list as a sucker for misinformation. They count on you to lend your credibility or venom to their biased propaganda and half truths. You are urged (and expected) to regurgitate and spread their concoctions so they will come at resentful recipients from you so many sources that the 'junk' seems to be FACT.
Whether leftists are busy 'mooning' or suffer impotence is hardly your business. Its offering here suggests little of a 'factual' nature.
Spare us the hypocritical lecture about what's "overwhelminlgy popular".
This Elizabeth is exactly what the government will be doing next year under Obamacare. Our company account's husband is a retired veteran and is going through a period with significant health problems. Absolutely nothing can be done for him without VA approval which can take 48 hours in some cases even though the doctor he is seeing wants the test or the scan ASAP. His wife is spending 2 to 5 hours on the phone with the VA trying to expedite approvals. At least in the small business world, where most Americans work, I think that I would rather have someone who understood the situation more closely than the government.
It is the failed MA plan on steroids. In MA, not only individuals and families are being adversely affected but most of the small businesses.
So Dems who all voted in favor of Obamacare also had their toast slathered with butter.
There isn't a d or an r politican in the U.S. who doesn't know who butters his/her toast.
No to Elizabeth Warren. She's an Obama clone and he's done nothing for us, most against us and loves endless war. She supports the same as he does. All of them do on both sides of the aisle.
That's why OWS is out there with, btw, a full calendar of events.
you seem to have no judgement...where on earth do you
get your information???? The comments following this
article should help inform you...geesh!
Senator(YES) Warren offers a well outlined synopsis of what this bill is trying to do. Kill Health Care Reform and put Americans right BACK where we were before Health Care Reform was law.
Thank you Catholic Bishops who want to take away American Religious Freedoms and make everyone abide by Catholic doctrine.
This means we go back several hundered years where the Catholic Church and the Pope were our overlords. Taliban rules applied.
I am not Catholic and I Certainly do not beleive the riduclous beliefs about the Pope being infallibe nor buying forgivness nor a wagon load of none sense with which these Religiously Challenged "Religious" leaders try to burden people so that they may control the masses.
This is WAR!!
Read details above about how Obamacare works - only the tip of the iceberg. Not pretty.
Wait til you can't afford the gov't approved coverage that the gov't has decided you can afford and the IRS comes after you to pay a tax penalty. Or maybe you'll luck out but 6 of your relatives and 5 friends won't. Then let's hear how great O'care is.
You would do well to read the O'care law and also the disclosures on a Medicaid form which will apply to all Americans at 133% or less FPL b/c they'll be dumped into Medicaid. And read up on estate recovery in OBRA 1993 cuz that's gonna apply to a lot of Americans who end up in crappy Medicaid.
For subsidized plans at the O'care Exchange - under discussion now is the cheapest coverage (plan) at 60/40. You'll be underinsured (can't afford to use it) and will go bankrupt if you get really sick or injured and will struggle trying to pay the premiums which are being negotiated by insurance companies.
O'care is based on the MA plan. Medical bankruptcies in MA have increased since this law went into effect about 6 years ago in MA and 75% of the 316,xxx who are still uninsured can't afford the premiums that the gov't said they could afford. Others can't afford to use the insurance so don't seek care.
That is the point, that this amendment is bad. It attacks the most vulnerable segment of the populace, the working class. The Blunt amendment is just more corporofascist BS.
Remember the good old days when insurance companies practiced the fine art of implementing their policy of "pre-existing condition" as an effective way to deny you coverage for insurance you were paying monthly for? Well, that seems pretty tame compared to what Blunt and his GOP cohorts are proposing, doesn't it?
For anyone who cares to ponder, this is the wonderful dystopia that the GOP is fashioning for the American people. Make no mistake, this is designed specifically to hurt the 99% while at the same time hugely rewarding the insurance industry. Anyone left in America with a remaining doubt about who the GOP has sworn their allegiance to, should be certain now.
The GOP: when you think they've gone as far as they can and some small moderation surely must be at hand, they double down on their extremism. They're like relentless zombies who just keep coming.
Amazing to see someone like Elizabeth Warren in the midst of this madness.
The Republican Perspective
After having been abused, exploited, and worked to death creating the wealthy, and having had their last dime stolen by a society the wealthy have perverted for their own devices, the poor should at least have the common courtesy to die quickly without complaint.
As for those who have been used and abused, what ingrates; they're using up valuable resources (like air and water) that could be put to better use.
NEVER EVER EVER VOTE GOP/TP but get out and vote in 2012 - including "CONTACT your Democratic headquarters to insure people vote Dem / Independent.
long, and have royally screwed things up.
The Blount amendment is tip top of a very slippery slope for health care. You fools don't even realize that the fewer people with health care the more it costs the rest of it. We get to pay for not only accidents, but for sick children and middle aged heart attack
victims. I do not know of anyone who deliberately does not have health care. Contrary to what some of you think, the majority of Americans are honest, caring, and willing to help. These attacks are the works of frightened little people who have no self worth, so they have to take away from others to feel better about themselves. funny part is, it doesn't work, they just feel
the same.
Obama will win again because he is genuine. He cares. The last President who showed compassion was Clinton and he is still loved worldwide by many people.
Jimmy Carter is a true Christian who used to sneak out of the White House to teach Sunday School. He still teaches to this day. But he is also modest, not a horn blower. And in his 80's he and Rosalyn still work on Habitat for Humanity housing. Swinging a hammer.
I'd like to know if there are ANY people out there who've been swayed by the likes of martinfre, MidwestTom, LeeNason, forparity, or RobtEagle?
These people are trolls who seem to have an infinite supply of time on their hands to continue ranting extremely unpopular and easily discredited beliefs. I wonder if someone is paying them to do this, because they really don't seem to be winning anyone over. Yet, they just keep coming back for more.
Has anyone out there been changed by the right-wingers who seem to be assigned to these threads?
Over a half a million people read these articles. Surely SOMEONE has been swayed by their arguments, right? Otherwise, their effort would be nothing more than a ridiculously pathetic waste of time. Considering how hard they all claim to work, I can't imagine they'd be wasting their time like that.
I agree that we need to keep the trolls rants pertinent to the article. That's a real problem with some of them. Of course, every time they try to change the subject, it just makes the right wing look like it has no affective argument to make.
I really do think that, as annoying as these people are, their irritating comments help our cause. This is why the more liberal candidate for most elections is always the one pushing for a debate and the more conservative is always trying to find excuses to avoid one.
It may be a dirty trick, but it's backfiring.
I'm glad these people are here. They give us the opportunity to point out, first hand, the stupidity of their phony arguments.
if it is accurate that they are paid shills whose intent is to disrupt these discussions, then they are traitors to the cause of participatory, free and democratic debate. They are are simply playground bullies.
If, on the other hand, their accusatory condemnations truly represent their feelings and they really believe the 'facts' as they present them, then perhaps we should work harder to help them understand the reality we believe. After all, many Southerners have overcome their fear and anger at desegregation, many men have ceased to resent the 'fact' that women have the right to vote, and some Republican politicians believe in evolution (not many, but some).
This isn't just a friendly conversation. This is a public debate, and the more they get involved in it, the sooner their policies will finally fade in the light of day.
Remember, the point of arguing with the trolls isn't to change the troll. It's to show the fence sitters who aren't committed to either side yet, that we actually have an answer to right-wing attacks. Ignoring them just opens us up to the criticism of being "ivy tower elites" who know nothing about the real world.
This is the single biggest, most intense, and most frequent argument I get into with the other people on our side. The way I see it, we've tried the "letting them make fools of themselves without bringing ourselves down to their level" tactic ever since the McCarthy era. Where has that gotten us. Sometimes I feel the left is the George McFly character getting kicked in the butt over and over again, and saying "oh, that's real mature!". Sometimes we have to lay Biff out.
It's ugly. It's politics.
We finally ended up with a mentally challenged President and the corporate state followed thorough with the neo con agenda of Reagan. With the Bushes propelling the country to war and economic ruin. It is a forgone conclusion that Obama will be elected for another four years unless you want to say the American public are unwise. If they grant him another term pray he takes the senate and the house with him to see through his promises to the American people and hopefully rescind the draconian legislation he signed into law during his past tenure of office.
If Obama is re-elected and the Democrats get a 60 seat majority in the Senate, do you think it will go any better than it did the last time that happened. The last time, repugs fought everything anyway. The Democrats didn't lower themselves to their level and also didn't get much accomplished.
US foreign policy is based on it. When the American people wake up and see what is happening to them in their own nation we may see them realise they have to take back power themselves. We see the little stirrings now. You can bet the forces arraigned against them will go all out to crush that little movement in its infancy as they know it cannot be allowed to grow and prosper. You have already seen agent provocateurs working hard to destroy the occupy movement. Eisenhower prevented Suez and stopped Israel in its tracks and kicked that old colonial power Britain out of Egypt. Egypt to now find it self in the strangle hold of Generals bought and paid for by the US another Neo colonialist power. As for McCarthyism. It is alive and well and is endorsed in the Tea party at present... Am sure you are well aware of it.
Stop pontificating here and unite and fight together for your country. Concentrate on what is happening to us all in the country we love. Today we see due to the brutal crackdown of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Oakland, New York, and most recently Los Angeles, that Americans are being denied their First and Third amendment rights. Mayors are sending the message that if one decides to pose a serious challenge to the status quo, they will be violently crushed.
The Constitution is dead and with it the beliefs and ideals America was founded on have also passed away. The most terrifying occurrence, however, is that Americans are seeing their freedoms eroded are still in denial that a police state is slowly, but surely on its way.
Get dam angry and then you are unstoppable.
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