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It seems my worst fears are coming true.  Congress is working, in secret, to pass a bill that will empower the Executive Branch to utilize the American Military as Team America, World Police.
Except that, in direct violation of Posse Comitatus, they plan to use it within the borders of the USA.
AND, they plan warrantless arrests, without charge, and without rights.  Including US citizens. 
Surprise, John McCain helped write this usurpation of the Constitution. 
Usurpation HELL! It is a downright rape of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Read the article and don't let this happen.  Civil war cannot be far behind... Iraq right here in Peoria. 

What the Heck were they thinking??So, as a cabdriver in Sacramento, CA, I often see the "seamy underside" of the city.
And. let me tell you, it gets very seamy.  I see it all, from suits talking about multideals and megabucks, mostly involved with government, to street people with and without homes who just want something for nothing.  Usually spare change or a free ride.
I hear opinions that make a lot of sense and others that obviously don't make sense to those spouting at the time they are spouting them.
I hear Occupy protesters chanting socio-communist slogans and Tea Parties praying for sanity.
I hear pseudo-Christians going on and on about the Will of Gawd.  Or Allah.  Whatever the Flavor of the moment is.
I hear students droning on and on about the specious drama of their own lives as if it were a reality show and really mattered to anyone besides them.  Young urban professionals talking about the job and the people they interact with as if its all going to matter in 30 years when they are ready to retire the first time and start collecting their golden parachutes.
Junkies and drunks babble about how their lives got all fucked up, usually by someone else, because, obviously, THEY weren't at fault.
Peaceniks who abhor the military.   Vets and active service who cover the whole range of political views from anti-war to "kill em all, Let God sort 'em out".
Americans, almost all.  Wannabe Americans!  Gonna be Americans!  Should be Americans!
I actually think the first generation of immigrants should be sent home after they have their kids, because their version of culture shock is just too traumatic on us all, their kids are American and will probably have different political views, religious views and social views.
But so what????   That is what is all about. Right?
But the parents, can't or won't speak English, Hang on to old country ways and customs.  Way too disruptive for me.  I can do without it.  Unless they make the effort, thousands and millions have made that effort and it has paid off.  For them and for us, America, that is.

If you can't be bothered to make that little bit of effort, if the old country ways are good enough for them.  Then go back to the old country. I'll help you pack.

According to Webster's:
Peasant (def 2.)  : a usually uneducated person of low social status

Aristocrat (def. 3)   : one believed to be superior of its kind

If you take a step back and examine our modern society with an unbiased view, difficult as that may be, you will note the obvious:
   Although the terms have fallen into disuse, they are quite applicable to our current social arrangement. 
  Our new "self-styled" aristocracy believes itself to be the superior of its kind.  Just a little, or a lot depending on the source, better than the hoi polloi that make the major bulk of Americans. 
  They believe themselves to be smarter, better educated, more attuned to "political realities" and, oh yeah, RICHER than the rest of us.  Ergo, they are superior. 
  Better educated?  Well, most of them went to better schools, but education is more than the school.   Someone has to learn from those schools and not just buy your schoolwork from the local laissez faire nerd.  That is where RICHER comes in handy.  
  Smarter?  Exactly how many of these supposedly smarter upper class types keep stepping on their own appendages publicly and repeatedly.  Bill Clinton, George Bush, Paris Hilton.  The list goes on. 
  More attuned to political realities?   Well, after years of indoctrination by Socialist educators and mentors (i.e. Obama's recent revelations of his  mentors), that is definitely open to question.  
Webster’s (again) 
Reality:  def 2. a (1) : a real event, entity, or state of affairs  (2) : the totality of real things and events.

This obviously does NOT include the current “close your eyes and repeat ‘it MUST be true, it MUST be true” attitude of certain leftist/Liberal/Socialist/Communistic world leaders living in Washington, D.C.

The tactic is the same one Clinton tried, The Big Lie, fine tuned by J. Stalin in post WWII U.S.S.R.  Keep telling the same lie often enough and eventually people will start believing it. 

Reality is not defined by what some aristocrat wants to be true, i.e. Great big Socialist One World Government with a docile proletariat happily toiling away at distasteful tasks, and a kindly, beneficent gentry running things only because they are qualified and better able to handle the complicated tasks involved.

Reality is almost a hundred years of dreadful history highlighting the immense, repeated failure of Socialism to accomplish anything useful besides allow tyrants to massacre millions of their own people in relentless efforts to maintain their power and control over those people.

Economies devastated, famines hushed up, five year plan disasters, mass murder commonplace.  Propaganda works, for a while, but eventually, the truth will out.

EVENTUALLY THE TRUTH WILL OUT.!

Well, it's just one thing after another.
The damn socialists and statists are really working hard at trying to just dismantle the Republic. 
I was just watching "Pure Country" with George Strait.  Not that movie, corny as it is, is a completely excellent commentary about Americans.
There is one scene at a rodeo where the guy on the horse carries a US flag around the arena several times and all the hats in the arena came off, except his of course, and I do mean ALL THE HATS.
 There just is not that sort of respect for the flag and all it stands for anymore in the cities and even in the larger towns.
Dumb hillbilly rednecks who just happen to represent the heart and soul of this country that was.
There are quotes about the situation we find ourselves in now, from history, fiction, commentary etc.
Usually along the lines of "those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." 
And we are repeating history.  The history of every golden age nation. 
The golden age is ending, apparently by our own design.  That is the collective "our". i.e., Most people of this country are buying the consumerist line that we are all destined to be rich and famous.
Others have apparently purchased huge lots of "everybody can be well off, if we just 'manage' everybody's wealth for them.  Meaning redistribution of said wealth.  Except for theirs, of course, because after all, they are already contributing by helping you spread yours around, whether you want to or not.
The government no longer even cares what the people want.  See Obamacare.
Votes no longer count for squat, just check that last few "popular" initiatives.  What?  They aren't around.?  Well, imagine that.
Your money... Thanks to the Fed,  and a few other minor factors, it now costs $5.00 for a loaf of bread. Gas is hovering between $3 and $5 per gallon.
Every day we hear some new move to put us as a nation under the thumb of the United Nations, an organization made up primarily of Third World Countries that can't run themselves, but they want a piece of our action.
Why,?  Because they don't have squat of their own... Why don't they have squat of their own?  Because their best and brightest have left and gone to America, where even in our screwed up economy, they are still better off than in their own shithole countries.
The government INSISTS on sending Trillions of the tax dollars they steal from us overseas each and every year to buy friends and what do they get.???
They get millions of people who hate us for what we have and they can;'t get because their rulers have stolen all the aid to buy chalets in the Alps to live in when their countries turn on them.
There are millions of Islamics in the world who hate the US, because in their entire lives they have read PARTS of ONE book.  The Koran. And the rest of what little they learn over and above how to wipe their butts with the left hand, is spoon fed to them by Imams with "agendas".  That is power.  To have all those people whose only knowledge of the world comes through THEM. 
Another quote:  "Power corrupts.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely!"
Reinforcement:  Look at the socialist American horribly misnamed education system.  We shuffle our kids off to schools that more closely resemble Mao's famous "Re-education camps".
Seriously, scratch a teacher, find a socialist. 
Another quote:  "No generalism is true, not even this one."
Americans beware, there are evil forces and deeds afoot in our country and we have all been asleep while they work. 
One morning soon, we will all awake and find ourselves in the same boat as the Jews, gays and Communists in 1930's Germany who "just couldn't believe Hitler was really serious".
Nobody believes that our government would turn on us.  They already have.

1. Does anybody really believe we are doing any good sending American boys to die in Afghanistan?
2. Does anybody really believe Iraqis really plan to have a democracy when we take our checkbook home?
3. Does anybody really want to keep giving Pakistan billions of dollars to bribe them out of nuking India?
4. Does anybody really care if the French really like us? Or the Italians or insert nation here.
5. Does anybody really want to keep giving our government millions of dollars to support the Third World?  Or believe they will come to OUR aid when we need it.?
6. Does anybody really believe they still live in the land of the free?  When EVERY pissant government agency can and will take what you own or save or earn whenever they want and some Supreme Court Justice for Life will just re-write the Constitution to suit.

If you answered NO to three or more of these questions, you really need to sit down and re-evaluate your own situation vis-a-vis modern political realities.