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What Happened to the Land
of the Free?
JBS
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Think back for a moment, if you are old enough, to the Reagan era
-- the 1980s. Not so very long ago Reagan was declaring the Soviet
Union to be an evil empire and was demanding that the Soviets "tear
down this wall" they had built in Berlin.
Reagan was right. The Soviet Union was an evil empire. Its citizens
were slaves to the regime. There were no Constitutional checks
and balances on government. The free press was unknown. The rights
and liberties of the people -- those were just pretty myths the
Soviet people heard were enjoyed by citizens of America.
How times change. The land of the free and the home of the brave
has been destroyed by the inept and anti-American Bush administration.
If you doubt that statement, read the latest post from the brilliant
Glenn Greenwald. The former lawyer who blogs for Salon takes on
both the administration and its apologists and fellow-travelers
in the press in his most recent column. For any American who remembers
those days past when this nation was a beacon of hope to the oppressed
around the world, it is impossible not to be outraged anew by
his frank description of the tyrannical behavior by the Bush administration.
To wit, referring to press lackey Megan McArdle of The Atlantic
and her coverage of former DOJ flunky John Yoo, he writes:
She quite obviously has no idea that the memoranda John Yoo
wrote -- legalizing government torture, declaring presidential
omnipotence, and suspending the Fourth Amendment inside the
U.S. -- are not merely his opinion, but became the official
position of the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.
She also quite obviously has no idea that he did all of that
in close association with the most powerful political officials
in the White House, including David Addington, Alberto Gonzales
and ultimately Donald Rumsfeld, nor does she have the slightest
awareness that the torture-authorizing memoranda were used to
brief Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the commander of Guantanamo who
then went to Iraq to train the commanders of American prisons
in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib, nor that the theories of presidential
omnipotence underlying it all remain firmly in place.
(Article continues below)
The point? We no longer have a free press and we no longer have
a government of, by and for the people. Instead, we have ITAR-TASS
and the Comintern.
There is, however, a solution, a way to recapture the America
that once was. The John Birch Society remains defiantly free of
the establishment media. No matter who is in office, no matter
what party holds the reigns of power, JBS and its media organs
will unblinkingly tell the truth. Moreover, we'll invite our fellow
citizens to do something about the problems facing the nation.
Specifically, we believe without reservation that America remains
the Land of the Brave, and we invite and encourage all the brave
souls of this land to join with us to work through Congress to
roll back the various totalitarian deprivations the Bush administration
has foisted on us these last seven years.
Together we can take America back and make sure it remains the
land of the free.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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