Everything I say.......is a lie.......Oberon.
In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
...........Dwight D. Eisenhower...........
American policies are being driven by the military-industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about......corporate influence steers this ship of state......but I have faith that we have started the journey of change with our votes yesterday. A world of change will come when we realize the truth......we are all slaves to the armament-energy-banking-pharma-terrorists.
Yes.......there are other terrorists too, those who would attempt to change the world by throwing bombs......but that is not change, that is only destruction.....they are just as culpable as those who wreak destruction through power and money.
Terrorism is the war of the poor......and war is the terrorism of the rich.......Sir Peter Ustinov.
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"We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel..."
Perhaps this explains the "dumbing down" of the citizenry of both our nations, by TV and other media, by our state education systems and by the pace of life we have to live in order to survive.
Perhaps that is the true poverty of the western world, the lack of time to think and evolve ideas.
Like you, Oberon, I have, in the past, believed that my vote could change things, but after a series of politicians that say one thing to get in power and then once they are in power do not produce the goods I am jaded by the whole so called democratic proccess.
I hope to be wrong...time will tell .....
......never give up.....and you're right about the "dumbing down".....an informed populous is a threat to the corporate cabal....democracy is an ideal.....we struggle endlessly, because to do otherwise would be to give up.....never give up.
Oberon, you and the people here will help me never to give up, we may not agree always, but we are thinking and communicating.
~ Which is a blessing ~
Thank You.
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