We as Americans go through our daily lives carrying with us the belief in such slogans that we live in a country of the free and the brave. Yet practically every step we take in our daily routines belies what these mantras are supposed to mean. Every day we Americans work diligently to rob ourselves of our freedoms. We are supposed to be governed by our representatives. Did our representatives vote for war in Iraq, or was it Bush and his coterie who took the vote away from us? And who is paying for it, those who lied to America, or those who paid with their lives and the taxes for this mass suicide? How were we free being dragged into such butchery? Was it just? Why do we keep voting for representatives who are in the hire of the very people who are bent upon controlling us?
When the rich control the oil and the public must be fettered to the relentless rise in prices at the pump, how free are we to choose otherwise? When the stockbrokers and other white collar crooks scheme to create world economic crises in cycles, how free are we to defend ourselves from them? Is it just? Is it just that the gap between the rich and poor continues to grow relentlessly – to the poor? – to America? How free are we to defend ourselves against the ravages of pollution caused by various big industries, whom our representatives [in their pay] defend at the expense of the public health?
These and many other subjects are discussed in an attempt to get at the causes, the disease, rather than their effects [or symptoms]. There is discrimination, illegal immigration, racism, the deadly effects of misunderstood patriotism, education or its lack thereof, the costly negative effects of the Civil Rights Movements, etc.
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