Excellent point, EmbeddedJanitor, excellent point.
It is worth noting that on page 930 of that 9/11 Commission Report there is mention made by the Markle Foundation for the "necessity" of a national ID system in America (aren't they already implementing that in the UK - with help from that company that Rumsfeld's monkey, Stephen Cambone, went to???).
Now many aren't familiar with the "think tank" the Markle Foundation, part of the network of Rockefeller Foundations, which is highly interconnected with the US intel establishment (their members go back and forth, etc.), which is now the privatized US intel establishment.
Of course, having a national ID system wouldn't have mattered the way 9/11 went down, even assuming one accepts the Bush administration's conspiracy theory....
I love you, PopeRatzo, truly I do, but as extraordinarily knowledgeable as you are, I'm afraid you are still missing the macro picture, guy.
The national election has been gamed - by those soulless ones - from every direction. With millions of Americans - who aren't aware of it yet, and many will never be - unregistered by their Secretaries of State (each state's senior election officer) - thanks to that passage of HAVA and - as you made mention of - those DRE voting machines which have been exempted form any "election reform" laws - thanks greatly to recent legislation by Bush-dog Democrat, Diane Feinstein of CA - along with those voters who mail in ballots which, when not counted, will have no way of knowing their votes have gone by the wayside; and all those states now requiring ID, etc., etc., ad nauseum ---- Lotsa frigging luck!!!!
I'm afraid we're at the point where the only solution is the French solution, as the US is now experiencing a depression (while the corporate McNews - majority-owned by 5 corporations - quibbles about what a recession is); and the rest of the planet has entered into the first stage of a Global Depression (while the global corporate McNews - primarily owned by 6 multinationals will clamp down on this factoid) - things will only get worse...
And please allow me to repeat: US gov't debt obligations (officially - probably a lot worse considering all the neocon major thievery) is approx. $64 trillion. (USD)
Riiiight..faloi, this non-political type, Ivens, just happened to send the anthrax to the two individuals, Daschle & Leahy, who were holding up the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act - then, when their offices were quarantined due to the arrival of said anthrax, and they couldn't get to their offices and missed the 2:00 AM Senate session when said USA PATRIOT Act finally passed.
Just another of those thousands of coincidences which, luck would have it, benefitted the Bush Crime family and their cronies. (And no, I don't think Ivens was actually actively involved - it was still most likeley that individual who was paid off with $5.82 million.)
Next you'll be proclaiming it just a coincidence that one Richard Armitage just happened to be one of the directors of that Kuwait oil company which was slant drilling into Iraqi territory and precipitated the first Gulf War, and just happened to be on the board of directors of ChoicePoint during the 2000 presidential election when the Florida debacle transpired - said debacle involving ChoicePoint's involvement with Florida's registered voter database.....
Well said, good citizen spun. Let me add that some good entities to observe (is that a synonym for hax?) are SAIC, Blackwater, Halliburton, Northrop Grumman (rumored to be majority owned by the Bush family and James Baker), Raytheon, L-3, and on and on and on.....especially if you can get into their offshore tax havens in the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Vanuatu (owned by the Blackstone Group, I believe), and a bunch of other interesting venues.....
And to add to your intelligent and insightful comment, Smauler, right now there are at least three heavily armed nuclear Iranian Navy battle groups immediately off the shores of America, while there are at least five terrorist groups operating in America financed by Iran, committing terrorist acts against the civilian population. And also Iranian war planes are routinely violating American airspace......
OOPS!!! Got that backwards, those are American aggressors off the shore of Iran, with American-financed terrorist groups (at least two connected to Bush's buddies, al Qaeda) committing terrorist acts against Iranian civilians....(end of sarcastic rant) - but EVERYONE should get the obvious point (which Smauler has already, of course!).
Speaking of disingenuousness, stmfreak, you are describing a neocon criminal bunch which has focused on extracting wealth, not creating wealth, over the preceding 28 years - at least in America!
The first action that Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Ronald Reagan performed upon taking power was to create an office of privatization, which was really an organization for piratization.
They have a sociopathic mindset of never amortizing anything, never rebuilding, nor even attending to the infrastructure, and creating such garbage as the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which is a mandate for the criminal manipulation of markets (examine Sections 2d, 2e, 2f, 2g, 2h, etc., and compare the ownership and patterns of market rigging, wash sales, and so on, among the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), ICE Futures, and TradeSpark).
You are, unfortunately, utilizing an intelligent argument, while the majority of Americans are far too ignorant to realize that the minimum wage in Denmark is $38,000 per year - roughly $18.60 or thereabouts per hour - while the USA, which has a slightly higher productivity rate, should have a minimum wage of $22.00 per hour, but with "mobbed up" sleazebags like Pelosi, that Bush-dog-democrat, the American minimum wage is far, far below what it should be - but alas, Americans are just too damn dumb to realize the obvious.......
Thanks for answering that twit-brain, my good fellow terjeber, as I no longer have the patience with the militantly ignorant.
Not only will it most likely happen here again, but far too many ignorant Americans don't realize that it once took place here relatively recently - and no, I'm not referring to the horrendously evil treatment of the slave and former slave population of this nation, but to those individuals in the American labor movement back in the late 1800's and early 1900's; not all that long ago.
You know, Weaselmancer, I really support your sentiment, but things are way more complicated than most people, namely Americans, who haven't been paying much attention over the preceding thirty years, can fully appreciate.
For all intents, America hasn't had an actual government for quite some time: with the privatization of much of it, especially the two or three most crucial areas: the national election process, the intelligence community and many aspects of the US military.
It is crucial to recall that after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his brother, then Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, didn't seek protection from the US Secret Service, nor the even worse F.B.I., but was able to get the US Marshal Service (the true heroes of 20th century America) to offer their protection to his family.
Today, the Secret Service and the FBI are far worse then at that time - as is every subverted and privatized agency within the US "government" - and will require massive purges to rid these organizations of their criminal, treasonous and corrupt elements; along with the re-federalizing of the entire US intelligence community.
The likelihood of this happening anytime soon is highly remote, so we should cut Senator Obama a bit of slack on this matter - he is truly going against monumental odds, and has already stated his desire to remove the US occupational forces from Iraq as soon as conceivable - so let us never forget what befell President Kennedy after his directive to the Pentagon to downsize the troops in Vietnam by 1,000, with eventual withdrawal of all forces; and let us not forget what befell Rev. Martin Luther King after his public pronouncements against the US military presence in Vietnam, nor what befell Bobby Kennedy after his first major victory in the California primary while running on an anti-war platform......
This is a fairly adequate synopsis of the American voting situation as it now stands:
Four corporate entities now control between 80% to 90% of the vote counting (Hart InterCivic, ES&S, Sequoia, Premier Election Systems [formerly Diebold]) and these four are primarily funded by the Pentagon by way of "defense" contractors, etc. (Also, the votes from civilians and military from overseas are controlled or coordinated by Hart InterCivic as well.)
Also, as investigative journalist Greg Palast has so brilliantly pointed out, the Help America Vote Act legislation (HAVA) required states receiving federal funds to create cetralized voter registration databases (Section 303), which conveniently fall under the jurisdiction and control of the individual secretaries of state.
This gives extraordinary power to unregister voters - which did in fact occur in 2006 in California (and perhaps other states as well) where 40% of the voters who registered were "unregistered"......
Whichever way or vantage point one views it, the system has been extraordinarily well gamed......
Oh puuuhlease...you surely don't think this movie's premise could possibly ever happen???
Simply because we now have the existence of the T.I.A. (made up of NSA, NGA and 90 plus government contractors performing domestic surveillance - including everything from pay-per-view at the hotels/motels, those cameras at all those toll booths, those security cameras throughout every major metropolis, your every online credit and check transaction courtesy of First Data...oh, I could go on, but what's the use...), not to mention all those privatized satellite networks - once run by the government...
Then, of course, there's that HAVA legislation which required centralized voter registration databases, under the power of individiual secretaries of state (bad news, when their Republicans or globalist Dems), and a number brought into existence by either Accenture or ChoicePoint......
It is highly important to keep this capability and functionality as otherwise how would the bad guys, a k a, power elites, be able to track and terminate the likes of Phillip Merrill after he was ready to blow the whistle on the thievery of the Iraqi treasury by BushCo, plus the elimination of that Delta Force team that tipped off Seymour Hersh regarding their ordered standdown at Tora Bora (after sighting Osama bin L.); likewise the required termination of military personnel associated with the attempted transfer of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Israel (via that Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB routing).....
Let us closely examine Paul's fundamental "philosphy" for a moment:
Paul contends that government is bad as it can be easily taken over by the corporations (which has obviously already transpired). Therefore, Paul wants to give all the government functions over to the corporations!
HUH??? Cany anyone get their head around that convoluted nonlogic......
Now where have we heard that before? Might it be George Bush (author of the soon-to-be-published: Tales from the Bush Family Torture Chamber)? Could it be Robert Gates (author of the forthcoming cookbook: Fifty Ways to Boil a Cat)? Or Donald Rumsfeld (author of the forthcoming self-help book: What You Don't Know You Don't Know and Who Knows What You Don't Know?)? Or possibly Dick Cheney (author of the forthcoming article in Guns & Ammo: Shooting Lawyers on the Sly)?
Well, they should have a bunch of money with all those billions shipped to the Pakistani government. Then there's that $75 million - "accidentally" handed over last summer to a militia chief who turned out to be one of five actual Al Qaeda types in Iraq.
Or maybe they purchased that stuff with some of those billions that went missing in Iraq ($30 billion at last count)...
Hmmmm...maybe it's from the Iraqi treasury, which now, much to their chagrin, now resides in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and also JP Morgan Chase......
An iPhone, an iPod, and a MacBook - no...just kidding, those are far too high-quality for that dood, instead, I would give him serious books on Henry George, Thorstein Veblen, Michael Hudson, Catherine Austin Fitts' writings, along with Carolyn Baker's history publications.
For anyone reading nonsensical tripe such as The Economist over the past 33 years deserves to unplug from the Matrix.....
Pleased be advised, Americans, that we are no longer accepting any further souls-for-sale from your country. We now have exceeded our limit for the forseeable future - with generation after generation of the Bush families, Cheney families, Rumsfeld and Rice families - we are now stocked for several thousand years.
Admittedly, quantity over quality, but quotas must be met, you know.....
The article, which I've read, posits the presupposition that these traits are rare in societies, although appearing across the spectrum of countries.
I would strongly contradict that opinion - given the current makeup of individuals in Corporate America and what passes for an American "government" today - it more than likely appears that predatory-types are in the ascendancy - and unless we start taking drastic, physical action on this matter the situation will only worsen........
From reading almost everything out there on this subject - the best item to date is the legal deposition filed by the expert witness on behalf of the EFF (F. Scott Marcus) which is indicative of a substantially large Narus box network at AT&T and other telecoms. (Most probably extant in at least 20 cities throughout America.
This provides the Bush Crime Family with an awesome capacity to spy on everyone for both financial intelligence and political intelligence and election-rigging (along with the existing TIA: over 70 government contractors performing domestic surveillance together with the NSA and NGA elements).
Of course, MAIN CORE (that database composed of over 8 million American "domestic terrorists" -i.e., citizens who have written or worked against the BushCo criminal activities...) is a subelement of this network.
It is interesting to recall that his father, the senator named Thomas Dodd, had at least two (or perhaps it was three) Acts of Congress passed just to curb his runaway greed. (The senior Dodd acted as a paid foreign agent on behalf of various slimey and assorted dictators. After the first act limiting how much an elected politician could receive, Dodd branched out to many, many more slimey dictators and other governments, leading the pack in number of entities he represented.)
Greed often seems genetic amongst these slimey pols: Bush family: Prescott the traitor and financier of the Third Reich; his father who was the first president of the notoriously anti-American worker, anti-union, National Association of Manufacturers; Bill Clinton supporting every anti-American worker "free trade agreement"; Hillary being financially supported by Indian offshoring industry, and Chelsea working on behalf of the American-job offshorer, McKinsey Consultancy.......
It is indeed treason - and it is you, "my friend" (to paraphrase a surrender monkey named McCain), who doesn't understand the meaning of that term.
Anyone, or group, who consistently trashes the US Constitution is/are traitor(s). 'Nuff said....
I would only add one hopefully pertinent comment: there is in actuality no government left, but simply the corporations who control this interface which was once known as "government".....
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It is worth noting that on page 930 of that 9/11 Commission Report there is mention made by the Markle Foundation for the "necessity" of a national ID system in America (aren't they already implementing that in the UK - with help from that company that Rumsfeld's monkey, Stephen Cambone, went to???).
Now many aren't familiar with the "think tank" the Markle Foundation, part of the network of Rockefeller Foundations, which is highly interconnected with the US intel establishment (their members go back and forth, etc.), which is now the privatized US intel establishment.
Of course, having a national ID system wouldn't have mattered the way 9/11 went down, even assuming one accepts the Bush administration's conspiracy theory....
I love you, PopeRatzo, truly I do, but as extraordinarily knowledgeable as you are, I'm afraid you are still missing the macro picture, guy.
The national election has been gamed - by those soulless ones - from every direction. With millions of Americans - who aren't aware of it yet, and many will never be - unregistered by their Secretaries of State (each state's senior election officer) - thanks to that passage of HAVA and - as you made mention of - those DRE voting machines which have been exempted form any "election reform" laws - thanks greatly to recent legislation by Bush-dog Democrat, Diane Feinstein of CA - along with those voters who mail in ballots which, when not counted, will have no way of knowing their votes have gone by the wayside; and all those states now requiring ID, etc., etc., ad nauseum ---- Lotsa frigging luck!!!!
I'm afraid we're at the point where the only solution is the French solution, as the US is now experiencing a depression (while the corporate McNews - majority-owned by 5 corporations - quibbles about what a recession is); and the rest of the planet has entered into the first stage of a Global Depression (while the global corporate McNews - primarily owned by 6 multinationals will clamp down on this factoid) - things will only get worse...
And please allow me to repeat: US gov't debt obligations (officially - probably a lot worse considering all the neocon major thievery) is approx. $64 trillion. (USD)
Global GDP: Approx. $68 trillion (USD)
Credit derivatives market: Approx. $516 trillion (USD)
Credit Default Swap of that $516 trillion, approx. $43 trillion (USD).....
Riiiight..faloi, this non-political type, Ivens, just happened to send the anthrax to the two individuals, Daschle & Leahy, who were holding up the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act - then, when their offices were quarantined due to the arrival of said anthrax, and they couldn't get to their offices and missed the 2:00 AM Senate session when said USA PATRIOT Act finally passed.
Just another of those thousands of coincidences which, luck would have it, benefitted the Bush Crime family and their cronies. (And no, I don't think Ivens was actually actively involved - it was still most likeley that individual who was paid off with $5.82 million.)
Next you'll be proclaiming it just a coincidence that one Richard Armitage just happened to be one of the directors of that Kuwait oil company which was slant drilling into Iraqi territory and precipitated the first Gulf War, and just happened to be on the board of directors of ChoicePoint during the 2000 presidential election when the Florida debacle transpired - said debacle involving ChoicePoint's involvement with Florida's registered voter database.....
Well said, good citizen spun. Let me add that some good entities to observe (is that a synonym for hax?) are SAIC, Blackwater, Halliburton, Northrop Grumman (rumored to be majority owned by the Bush family and James Baker), Raytheon, L-3, and on and on and on.....especially if you can get into their offshore tax havens in the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Vanuatu (owned by the Blackstone Group, I believe), and a bunch of other interesting venues.....
Low comprehension and short attention span...a common affliction today.
And to add to your intelligent and insightful comment, Smauler, right now there are at least three heavily armed nuclear Iranian Navy battle groups immediately off the shores of America, while there are at least five terrorist groups operating in America financed by Iran, committing terrorist acts against the civilian population. And also Iranian war planes are routinely violating American airspace......
OOPS!!! Got that backwards, those are American aggressors off the shore of Iran, with American-financed terrorist groups (at least two connected to Bush's buddies, al Qaeda) committing terrorist acts against Iranian civilians....(end of sarcastic rant) - but EVERYONE should get the obvious point (which Smauler has already, of course!).
The first action that Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Ronald Reagan performed upon taking power was to create an office of privatization, which was really an organization for piratization.
They have a sociopathic mindset of never amortizing anything, never rebuilding, nor even attending to the infrastructure, and creating such garbage as the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which is a mandate for the criminal manipulation of markets (examine Sections 2d, 2e, 2f, 2g, 2h, etc., and compare the ownership and patterns of market rigging, wash sales, and so on, among the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), ICE Futures, and TradeSpark).
Gee...for the good old days of "criminal cooperatives".....
You are, unfortunately, utilizing an intelligent argument, while the majority of Americans are far too ignorant to realize that the minimum wage in Denmark is $38,000 per year - roughly $18.60 or thereabouts per hour - while the USA, which has a slightly higher productivity rate, should have a minimum wage of $22.00 per hour, but with "mobbed up" sleazebags like Pelosi, that Bush-dog-democrat, the American minimum wage is far, far below what it should be - but alas, Americans are just too damn dumb to realize the obvious.......
Thanks for answering that twit-brain, my good fellow terjeber, as I no longer have the patience with the militantly ignorant.
Not only will it most likely happen here again, but far too many ignorant Americans don't realize that it once took place here relatively recently - and no, I'm not referring to the horrendously evil treatment of the slave and former slave population of this nation, but to those individuals in the American labor movement back in the late 1800's and early 1900's; not all that long ago.
You may want to re-read that, dood, it is unconstitutional to make something illegal Ex Post Facto, not legal.....
You know, Weaselmancer, I really support your sentiment, but things are way more complicated than most people, namely Americans, who haven't been paying much attention over the preceding thirty years, can fully appreciate.
For all intents, America hasn't had an actual government for quite some time: with the privatization of much of it, especially the two or three most crucial areas: the national election process, the intelligence community and many aspects of the US military.
It is crucial to recall that after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his brother, then Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, didn't seek protection from the US Secret Service, nor the even worse F.B.I., but was able to get the US Marshal Service (the true heroes of 20th century America) to offer their protection to his family.
Today, the Secret Service and the FBI are far worse then at that time - as is every subverted and privatized agency within the US "government" - and will require massive purges to rid these organizations of their criminal, treasonous and corrupt elements; along with the re-federalizing of the entire US intelligence community.
The likelihood of this happening anytime soon is highly remote, so we should cut Senator Obama a bit of slack on this matter - he is truly going against monumental odds, and has already stated his desire to remove the US occupational forces from Iraq as soon as conceivable - so let us never forget what befell President Kennedy after his directive to the Pentagon to downsize the troops in Vietnam by 1,000, with eventual withdrawal of all forces; and let us not forget what befell Rev. Martin Luther King after his public pronouncements against the US military presence in Vietnam, nor what befell Bobby Kennedy after his first major victory in the California primary while running on an anti-war platform......
This is a fairly adequate synopsis of the American voting situation as it now stands:
Four corporate entities now control between 80% to 90% of the vote counting (Hart InterCivic, ES&S, Sequoia, Premier Election Systems [formerly Diebold]) and these four are primarily funded by the Pentagon by way of "defense" contractors, etc. (Also, the votes from civilians and military from overseas are controlled or coordinated by Hart InterCivic as well.)
Also, as investigative journalist Greg Palast has so brilliantly pointed out, the Help America Vote Act legislation (HAVA) required states receiving federal funds to create cetralized voter registration databases (Section 303), which conveniently fall under the jurisdiction and control of the individual secretaries of state.
This gives extraordinary power to unregister voters - which did in fact occur in 2006 in California (and perhaps other states as well) where 40% of the voters who registered were "unregistered"......
Whichever way or vantage point one views it, the system has been extraordinarily well gamed......
Simply because we now have the existence of the T.I.A. (made up of NSA, NGA and 90 plus government contractors performing domestic surveillance - including everything from pay-per-view at the hotels/motels, those cameras at all those toll booths, those security cameras throughout every major metropolis, your every online credit and check transaction courtesy of First Data...oh, I could go on, but what's the use...), not to mention all those privatized satellite networks - once run by the government...
Then, of course, there's that HAVA legislation which required centralized voter registration databases, under the power of individiual secretaries of state (bad news, when their Republicans or globalist Dems), and a number brought into existence by either Accenture or ChoicePoint......
Exactly so and well done!
It is highly important to keep this capability and functionality as otherwise how would the bad guys, a k a, power elites, be able to track and terminate the likes of Phillip Merrill after he was ready to blow the whistle on the thievery of the Iraqi treasury by BushCo, plus the elimination of that Delta Force team that tipped off Seymour Hersh regarding their ordered standdown at Tora Bora (after sighting Osama bin L.); likewise the required termination of military personnel associated with the attempted transfer of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Israel (via that Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB routing).....
Let us closely examine Paul's fundamental "philosphy" for a moment:
Paul contends that government is bad as it can be easily taken over by the corporations (which has obviously already transpired). Therefore, Paul wants to give all the government functions over to the corporations!
HUH??? Cany anyone get their head around that convoluted nonlogic......
"...reputable source...."
Now where have we heard that before? Might it be George Bush (author of the soon-to-be-published: Tales from the Bush Family Torture Chamber)? Could it be Robert Gates (author of the forthcoming cookbook: Fifty Ways to Boil a Cat)? Or Donald Rumsfeld (author of the forthcoming self-help book: What You Don't Know You Don't Know and Who Knows What You Don't Know?)? Or possibly Dick Cheney (author of the forthcoming article in Guns & Ammo: Shooting Lawyers on the Sly)?
Well, they should have a bunch of money with all those billions shipped to the Pakistani government. Then there's that $75 million - "accidentally" handed over last summer to a militia chief who turned out to be one of five actual Al Qaeda types in Iraq.
Or maybe they purchased that stuff with some of those billions that went missing in Iraq ($30 billion at last count)...
Hmmmm...maybe it's from the Iraqi treasury, which now, much to their chagrin, now resides in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and also JP Morgan Chase......
An iPhone, an iPod, and a MacBook - no...just kidding, those are far too high-quality for that dood, instead, I would give him serious books on Henry George, Thorstein Veblen, Michael Hudson, Catherine Austin Fitts' writings, along with Carolyn Baker's history publications.
For anyone reading nonsensical tripe such as The Economist over the past 33 years deserves to unplug from the Matrix.....
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Office of his honor, Lucifer
Pleased be advised, Americans, that we are no longer accepting any further souls-for-sale from your country. We now have exceeded our limit for the forseeable future - with generation after generation of the Bush families, Cheney families, Rumsfeld and Rice families - we are now stocked for several thousand years.
Admittedly, quantity over quality, but quotas must be met, you know.....
I would strongly contradict that opinion - given the current makeup of individuals in Corporate America and what passes for an American "government" today - it more than likely appears that predatory-types are in the ascendancy - and unless we start taking drastic, physical action on this matter the situation will only worsen........
FINALLY....someone who can count! Props to puddnhead7....
From reading almost everything out there on this subject - the best item to date is the legal deposition filed by the expert witness on behalf of the EFF (F. Scott Marcus) which is indicative of a substantially large Narus box network at AT&T and other telecoms. (Most probably extant in at least 20 cities throughout America.
This provides the Bush Crime Family with an awesome capacity to spy on everyone for both financial intelligence and political intelligence and election-rigging (along with the existing TIA: over 70 government contractors performing domestic surveillance together with the NSA and NGA elements).
Of course, MAIN CORE (that database composed of over 8 million American "domestic terrorists" -i.e., citizens who have written or worked against the BushCo criminal activities...) is a subelement of this network.
It is interesting to recall that his father, the senator named Thomas Dodd, had at least two (or perhaps it was three) Acts of Congress passed just to curb his runaway greed. (The senior Dodd acted as a paid foreign agent on behalf of various slimey and assorted dictators. After the first act limiting how much an elected politician could receive, Dodd branched out to many, many more slimey dictators and other governments, leading the pack in number of entities he represented.)
Greed often seems genetic amongst these slimey pols: Bush family: Prescott the traitor and financier of the Third Reich; his father who was the first president of the notoriously anti-American worker, anti-union, National Association of Manufacturers; Bill Clinton supporting every anti-American worker "free trade agreement"; Hillary being financially supported by Indian offshoring industry, and Chelsea working on behalf of the American-job offshorer, McKinsey Consultancy.......
It is indeed treason - and it is you, "my friend" (to paraphrase a surrender monkey named McCain), who doesn't understand the meaning of that term.
Anyone, or group, who consistently trashes the US Constitution is/are traitor(s). 'Nuff said....
I would only add one hopefully pertinent comment: there is in actuality no government left, but simply the corporations who control this interface which was once known as "government".....
Located at local brothel, lunching with lobbyist or at the bank cashing humonguous lobbyist checks.
Conclusion: My senator or congressperson.
Test Subject #541:
Located at local brothel and lunch.
Conclusion: Just the mayor......
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