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Eddie Haskell

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11. American's suffer from the delusion that they live in a democratic society.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #8)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 10:30 AM

Aug 2013

Nothing could be further from the truth. We live in a police state, and that won't change with party control, election finance reform, hand counted ballots, or any other such noble, but useless reforms. Those with the money will always corrupt the system.

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Juan Cole: Top Ten Things That Don't Make Sense About Obama's Security State [View all] eridani Aug 2013 OP

The additional seven are also well worth reading. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #1

du rec. xchrom Aug 2013 #2

Let's be frank: the Spy On Everyone program is not useful for stopping terrorist attacks, but MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #3

...you forgot to add they does this "stopping" with the use of black helicopters and black drones uponit7771 Aug 2013 #6

Someday attacking people with derision and a "conspiracy theory" implication.... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #8

American's suffer from the delusion that they live in a democratic society. Eddie Haskell Aug 2013 #11

We'll never know if those reforms will or won't work unless they're tried... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #12

Yeah, maybe the same day we stop hearing about CakeGrrl Aug 2013 #17

Well, we can agree that one of us needs to wake the #%^* up. MannyGoldstein Aug 2013 #10

Strange, can't reach the link. caseymoz Aug 2013 #4

"Obama's security state" cause it only started under Obama hunh?!............................ok uponit7771 Aug 2013 #5

So your argument is that Obama is blameless burnodo Aug 2013 #15

He is the president now..... blackspade Aug 2013 #16

Spitzer! RVN VET Aug 2013 #7

K&R forestpath Aug 2013 #9

10 Why doesn't one of the telecoms... whttevrr Aug 2013 #13

+1000 blackspade Aug 2013 #14

Excellent points, all of them. n/t DirkGently Aug 2013 #18