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Freedom - of Thought

Who among us still has the luxury of 'Freedom of thought?' All people are free to think about what they chose to think about, which is why freedom was addressed in the Bill of Rights as 'Freedom of speech.' Much has been said about our right to say what we think - 'during a time of war' - as if our words could somehow bolster the enemies of this country.

The Bush-Bandits are living in the paranoia of the McCarthy era of the 1950s. The black-listings, the active campaigns of suspicion that branded one and all - until the accused could prove their innocence. All of this began that ideological split whose scars have brought us to the brink of global war.

Freedom is not total. Freedom is not free from personal responsibility. However that limited freedom that we enjoyed was the lynchpin on which the prosperity of the nation was based. Many extremists of the political right have maintained that those who do not share their views 'want government to do everything for them'. Most people tend to share the framer's concept that this government simply needs to stay out of the way of individual's lives and personal freedoms.

Most people are not seeking the government's help with anything, primarily because most know that such statements are contradictions in terms. Part of the reason for the Bill of Rights was so that individuals could enjoy freedom 'from' government interference in all phases of our lives. On that score both the USA PATRIOT act One, and Two seek to remove all strictures that bar the government from unwarranted searches and seizures of the property or privacy of any citizen. PATRIOT TWO seeks to strip all uncooperative individuals of their citizenship as well. Basically the Bush administration is arguing that we must forego all our rights both civil and criminal in order to be 'safe.' That is not only a travesty of the basic compact that all of us have with the government - it is false and misleading on its face. First because the government is incapable of guaranteeing such safety, and second because that is not their purpose in removing our rights.  

A free people, is an awesome thing to behold. While a subjugated population is a disgusting travesty, no matter what country this takes place in. Freedom itself is that lightening rod that can dispel fear and banish trivial suspicions. What this bunch of hustlers is trying to do is nothing short of attempting to steal our way of life.

On the one hand they want all our money, and all our efforts, with little or no compensation paid to those who do the work. On the other hand they see no reason to have to play by any rules other than their own.
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These are terms and conditions, they and their consorts created in order to sanction their conflicts-of interest, and their egregious violations of a whole pantheon of laws, policies and treaties. But the really dangerous freedom to them and to all they seek to accomplish in the ruins of what was the nation - is Freedom itself.

That's freedom of thought, freedom of speech, The Freedom of Information Act, as well as the freedom to question any and all actions of this government whether during a war, or during a time of relative peace. Questions are the barometer of every healthy society. This society has ceased to ask questions - relying as we seem to on opinion polls and the formalized and continuous fountain of lies that spews forth daily from the media and from government disinformation centers around the world.

We have already lost this nation because we've stopped asking questions of those who are supposed to work for us. It's rather like having a household staff that decides everything about how the house will be run without any input from the people who are paying them and from those who actually have to live there. We need to fire the entire lot of these usurpers and get ourselves another household staff of "public servants:" Because - if we don't do this -then we're the servants and they're the Masters of this House and all its functions. Just think about that for one full minute.

(pic3)Freedom's light is a single fire, a giant flame against the void of total domination. What we have now is the interim step of subjugation - that grinding-down of all that we have known into the useless sands of total complicity in all things political. The drivers of this paranoia are fear and intimidation and those factors can only work when we voluntarily give up our freedom to exist.

A recent 'favored method' has been to extol the virtues of "supporting the troops." Of course Americans care about their sons and daughters in the military. However the tasks those solders, sailors, airmen and marines have been given are in direct violation of international laws. It is the 'job' of the national leadership not to issue illegal orders to the military - and that responsibility ultimately must falls upon the shoulders of the Commander-in-Chief.

We have a disconnect between following the illegal orders of the Commander-in-Chief, the personal need to disavow or understand the actions of those we care most about - our sons and daughters in the armed services of the United States. This is a major problem. When our loved ones are called upon to kill masses of people at random in order to 'protect themselves from harm' while they are in the act of invading a country that has not attacked us, everything becomes conflicted. This is a nearly impossible choice for anyone to have to make. To understand it - we must look to the motives of those who created this Hobson's choice in the first place - the bullyboys of Crème-Puff's current administration.

Words are power incarnate, and that power comes directly from our possession of the freedom of thought. The words this administration chooses to use are only sounds and letters with little or even opposite meanings to the sense of their verbal constrictions. We should take off our blinders, remove our earplugs, and undo the self-imposed gags that have kept us servile to these out-of-control misfits, thieves and felons, who are actively using the US military to seek war for both personal and private purposes.

If we surrender our right to think and speak clearly and honestly - for whatever reason - then the invisible terrorists have truly won. More importantly we will have surely lost, not just our country and our nation, but ourselves. Are we ready to pay that high a price to enshrine George W. Bush and his Cabal - in the ever-burning pages of the histories of tyrants? Only the actions of the people of the United States will prove or disprove the above contentions. The judgments of history are one thing, the enslavement of all who are not part of the power elite is quite another.