As a kid I read in Reader's Digest about how "the enemy" murdered anyone it disliked and spied on

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and monitored its internal population as completely and fully as it could. And invaded and terrorized the citizens of other countries it was able to dominate.

Those articles described a truly evil, amoral, murderous form of government controlled by powers that had no human qualities at all. And a totally subservient, cowed and frightened population.

Although I later learned factually that reality is not drawn in black and white (I knew that vaguely even then), and that the conservative anti-commie bias of the owners shaped much of the content.

And yet the horrifying images those articles remained with me as pictures of purely evil, totally amoral state. Fictional then, or embellished, perhaps.

But now I have been seeing that nightmare enacted in reality for a decade. Far more than that, any closer look at history will show.

Spying on the population it owns and manipulating information on a scale never even imagined by the KGB, Murdering a million here and there in expansionist wars of occupation. Maybe the USSR wanted to do such, but they never did. Nuking a couple of cities (that was a warning of what was to follow, for some at least) - "We're Number One!" (and the only one). A true indicator of the evil that followed.

For a long time I believed that the powers that controlled the US state and caused such monstrous crimes might be ousted, that a coup by the people driven by the force of simple, common, basic decency when actual information was made available, was possible.

I thought that something had really changed when we inaugurated Obama even though other prior elections seemed to be no better than "could be worse." I cried tears of joy at the primary celebration, at the inauguration and Seeger-Springsteen singing of "This Land."

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1. We have been assured that our govt. will be watching the

watchers....

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2. Not to worry, Our 'Government will only watch 'Enemies of the State.'

Anyone who has studied COG (Continuation of Government) knows that.

As long as you remain invisible to them, you have nothing to worry about.

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3. kick (nt)