- Imagine you fell asleep ..oh, let's say, only five years
ago.
- Imagine you awoke this week in January, 2004.
- Keep in mind, as you read on, you have no idea of all
that
- has changed while you slept those five years.
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- Keep in mind too that the questions I'm going to ask
you are only the short list
- and the ones, which may affect you most immediately upon
your awakening.
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- How would you feel about the changes you'd see and hear?
- Who would you choose to believe about what has happened
while you slept?
- With whom would you want to associate now?
- Who would you feel you could trust?
- How would you feel when you discovered your job had been
"outsourced" while you slept?
- How would you feel when you discovered the home you owned
is no longer yours due
- to the revocation of The Posse Comitatus Act.
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- What would you think when you discovered while sitting
in your car at a traffic light that
- you are being filmed by a constantly running video camera
which is also constantly being
- monitored by a government official "somewhere"
in an undisclosed (to the public) location.
-
- Five years ago you knew there were cameras in stores
to help prevent shoplifting.
- But, now, cameras are posted on almost every building
outside to observe and film
- you wherever you walk.
-
- Hard to believe, isn't it?
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- What would you think when seeing our military acting
as police in your city or small town?
- What would you think of the new laws, which eliminated
our personal privacy?
- What would you think of the new laws, which allow government
officials to take you
- from your home, or from a store or just while you may
be walking on a sidewalk, and
- question you and hold you in a place where you don't
have access to a phone.
- And refuse to let you contact your family or friends
to tell them where you are
- for an indefinite period of time that can stretch into
years?
-
- What would you think of the new laws, which eliminated
all of the freedoms
- you had five years ago?
-
- Who would you seek for guidance in understanding where
you would "fit in" now?
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- Remember, you've lost five years. You have a lot of catching
up to do.
-
- You'll need to do some serious research just to find
out
- why we have a president who was not elected.
- why our Congress has betrayed us.
- why our soldiers are in Afghanistan and Iraq now.
- why we have a president who is the first in our history
to not attend funeral services
- for our fallen soldiers.
- why this president declared a ban on news photographers
taking pictures of returning
- wounded and dead soldiers.
-
- why those who disagree with the government are being
silenced, sometimes forcefully.
- why everything we buy contains RFID tags, which surveils
us wherever we go.
- why the government taps our land phones and cell phones
and Internet sites at will.
- why our cars are equipment with GPS satellite tracking
devices.
- why the tires on our cars are also equipment with tracking
devices.
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- why our neighbors have been recruited to report on each
other to government officials
- if they see, what seems to them, to be "suspicious"
or "potentially" terrorist activities.
- Why well-educated and patriotic Americans have allowed
a small group of men to
- alienate us from each other and former allies in many
countries around the world.
- And, to turn our land of the free into a land filled
with people in constant fear.
- Well, at least those who are not in denial are afraid
and for sound reasons.
-
- There is now a Fear in the people in our country
- of being seen with anyone the government has target as
a "possible" terrorist.
- of being seen reading books the government "suspects"
means you are a threat to them.
- of being heard disagreeing with the government's new
laws.
- of being deported though you were born and reared in
America.
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- When you fell asleep
- most of us believed that our Congress was our defense
against any president
- and his administration exercising absolute power.
-
- When you fell asleep
- you knew we had a government system for checks and balances
via
- our Constitution and it's amendments to prevent a dictatorship
in America.
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- When you fell asleep most of us thought our votes counted.
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- Now it's 2004 and you are awake and finding a world you
probably cannot believe is real.
- But, it's real all right.
-
- And, because you are awake, you are again counted in
the population.
- And, you are at any moment subject to being "designated"
a "potential threat"
- to the government.
-
- Will you be counted as one who stays awake
- or one in fear, who pretends to still be sleeping?
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- Hard choices in 2004 for us all.
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- Good Luck!
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