[Rhodes22-list] WTF? - political rant

[Bob Fletcher]

Robert,

I signed on the list for some perspective on a boat I'm ordering.

I didn't expect a political forum, but I'm delighted to see so many kindred 
spirits on the list.  Really enjoyed your post and the responses it 
provoked.

Bob Fletcher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Skinner" <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] WTF? - political rant


> Imagine this:
>
> Osama sitting in a mountain retreat watching
> the US government doing his work for him,
> destroying the freedoms won by thousands of
> American citizen warriors over the last 200+
> years.
>
> In the '40s, hundreds of thousands of our best
> and bravest died defending the free world.
>
> In the '60s, tens of thousands died supporting
> an oppressive regime.
>
> In the last 5 years, we have eviscerated our
> constitution, unbalanced the mechanisms of
> our government, launched a war on false
> presentations by our administration, and
> allowed our last vestiges of privacy and due
> process in searches and seizures to be taken.
>
> As a nation, we have permitted this in the name
> of security -- security that we do not have, as
> tests of our systems have demonstrated.
>
> In the mean time, Eisenhauer's prescient warning
> about the military-industrial complex has been
> fulfilled, as Haliburton makes a business of war.
>
> We have become cowardly couch potatoes, willing
> participants in fulfilling George Orwell's
> nightmare as long as the cable supplies the kind
> of circus that pacified Roman citizens as their
> politico-social structure collapsed.
>
> Suck it up, folks.  We are reaping the poisonous
> crop that has resulted from our failure to tend
> the garden of freedom.
>
> Enough is enough!
>
> We need an election this fall that is so
> overwhelmingly in support of opponents to the
> current administration that no amount of
> jiggering with voting machines, no amount of
> fraud in counting ballots, no amount of packing
> the Supreme Court, no amount of lies and dirty
> tricks can overcome the tide of revulsion that
> most Americans now feel.
>
> Mo more of the best government that money can buy.
>
> /Robert Skinner said that.
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