- It is imperative that the American people understand
what this word means to the neo-cons.
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- The freedom that Lincoln gave to the slaves is the classic
case, and I will not give a lengthy discourse of it, for it is what we
all know and understand. But this is only one variation of the definition
of "freedom".
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- Consider the experience that we all have had - being
robbed or mugged or burglarized. Did the Police do anything more than take
a report? Did they actively investigate and pursue the perpetrators? NO.
Their excuse would be, of course, that they cannot devote detectives to
every small crime that is reported. And we all accept that. "Buy some
insurance and get back to your TV." The point is that people are actually
free to live a life of crime.............. until they get caught red-handed.
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- But look at the other extreme of the criminal world.
Look at the corporate criminals. People like Michael Milken, Fastow, Ebbers,
etc. etc., and ask yourself - Do these types of criminals get the justice
they deserve?
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- Milken was the only one of dozens of shysters who was
even taken to court, and his punishment was a laughable 18 months in minimum
security and a fine of $200 million - when he and his gang ripped off close
to $50 BILLION from the public and the Government.
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- Now your starting to see the definition of freedom that
is cemented in the minds of our elected officials. At a press conference
during the massive looting in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was being grilled with
questions when he put his head down, began shuffling his papers getting
ready to walk away, and said "These people are free now. Free to become
criminals."
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- The freedom to be bad......and receive a slap on the
wrist is a wonderful freedom. $9 Billion in Iraq totally vanishing is a
pretty good example, but a much more lucrative game is the corporations
gaining complete control of the Federal Government (and proof is out there
that they did it with the control of the E-voting machines).
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- The corporate world is becoming free to do anything they
want - destroy air quality, poison the water supply, not be sued for harm
to citizens, etc. They are having Congress pass laws that take rights away
from citizens that have been in place for over 200 years. And they are
having Congress REMOVE laws that took decades to get passed (deregulation).
And a funny thing, Congress is not updating the punishments for crime that,
nowadays, amounts into BILLIONS of dollars in theft.
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- Having the freedom to own a post office box in the Cayman
Islands and avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, the freedom
to buy into shady tax shelters and avoid hundreds of millions in taxes,
the freedom to move operations to a communist dictatorship and avoid hundreds
of millions of dollars in wages and benefits, the freedom to pay themselves
astronomical salaries and options, the freedom to shovel profits into off-shore
accounts, the freedom to keep the white collar criminal code 100 years
behind the times, the freedom to decimate communities with Walmarts while
sending sons and daughters off to fight in illegal wars, the freedom to
break long-standing nuclear arms treaties with 180 nations of the world,
the freedom to break conflicts of interest rules, the freedom to give mega
wealth to your family and friends for war profiteering, the freedom to
keep the people in turmoil over threats to their social and physical security
in order to keep their minds off of all of the above..... these are the
freedoms that the neo-cons love. And if you think the Democrats are the
answer.......think again.......they feed from the exact same trough as
the Republicans. (Just check your Democrat's voting record to be sure.)
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- The really sad part is that these "freedoms"
are being handed over to them by a complaisant electorate that has a remote
control in their hands and would much rather watch a good game on TV than
stay informed about the sadistic game being played on THEM! And the neo-cons
are banking on it, because they are quite aware that there are very tough
times ahead.
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- http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/316533.shtml
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