First Bradley Manning and now Edward Snowden. They're heroes. And if the US survives the next two decades in a form that can still be called a democracy, there will be high schools named after them.
The government's vicious pursuit of whistleblowers is so backward, I don't know what to say. The only people who give us accurate information about what our government is doing are persecuted. There's no other word for their treatment.
And at the same time, we read news like this:
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from two American whistleblowers who claim U.S. forces tortured them in Iraq and who want to sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Nobama (that's how I think of him, since there's no Obama there -- or at least no person resembling the individual he portrayed himself to be) refuses to go after those who commit the most heinous crimes -- people like Bush and Cheney. But he'll attack with vengeance anyone who steps on his secretive toes. I'm sickened by the state of our country.
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Oh dear, you are not talking about the “greatest” country on Earth are you?
I think we really need to get rid of that silly notion and work on doing a bit better. Like you I am disappointed in President Obama, I really had hope he would be different and I bought into his rhetoric the first go around, even cutting him some slack on issues like the war and immediate troop withdrawals as being beyond his control.
We all know who runs this country, big dollar corporations, certainly not the American people. And actually there is not much difference in the two political parties they both are bought and paid for by the same dollars. Sadly it has been going on for a long, long time and I seriously doubt it will ever change.
The people have no power; the Wall Street issued fizzled, the gun control issued fizzled, trying to find a real solution to healthcare in America won’t even be discussed and now we basically are giving up on education completely.
The whole process is a sham and our best bet is to quickly learn to duck and take cover lest we get bonked in the process.
It's so good to have you back, Annie!
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