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Originally Posted by Robbie
And you are repeatedly wrong.
Did you choose any of the things that our govt. has done?
So YOU are the one who decided to experiment on black people by giving them venereal diseases to see what would happen?
YOU are the one who decided that we should go into Vietnam?
YOU are the one who decided that we should invade Iraq?
You see...you are leaving out an important fact:
Our govt. does 99% of things in the shadows. We don't even KNOW what they are doing because they "Classify" everything.
If not for Snowen, we wouldn't even have known what the NSA was doing to us.
So no...obviously it's impossible for the PEOPLE to be in control of the govt. when that govt. is shrouded in secrecy.
Man, you really should stop thinking about everything as "patriotic" or not. The real world doesn't work that way.
The govt. is about as fucking evil as it gets.
Just because you might be a vet (I don't know you personally so I don't know if you're flat out lying or really a vet) doesn't mean you should be lockstep with the Feds.
I have family who are vets of Vietnam. And one who is in Afghanistan right now.
And they are not at all like you. They think for themselves. Some things they agree with, some not.
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I am far from being in lockstep with the feds. I decided a long time ago not to become an activist so I do what I can legally do which is to pay attention to major bills that are coming up for vote and stay in the face of my Representative and Senator as to how they should vote.
You often speak about how you are against career polititions and who in the hell is it that makes them career politions? They cannot elect themselves...it is the people that elect them and it is the people that keep reelecting them over and over.
The "government" is the "government" people choose/want or they would not keep choosing to elect the same people over and over again...and they would pay attention to what bills are coming up for a vote and get in the face of their Representative and their Senator.
If the truth could be known I would wager that 90% of the people do not even know the names of their Representative or Senator...and for those that do...99% have never contacted the over any matter. Studies have been done multiple times over the years that show the majority of people...when they leave school...they never read another book for the rest of their life. The majority of the people never read a news paper and the majority do not even watch the TV news.
It is a government of the people...by the people...and for the people but it does require that the people involve themseves in what the hell is going on...but either way the people get the government they deserve.