It appears as if more people are waking up to the lies that have been told to us, the lies that our past leaders were warning us of. They knew what this country stood for, and they where willing to give their lives for it. I am sad to say that we as a nation do not deserve the freedom or dreams our elders gave us.

We are not willing to think for ourselves, to stand up and give our live for freedom. We want someone else to tell us what to fight for, and it usually is for their gain and our loss. Isn’t it time to fight for your freedom and your children. This country, like so many others, has been taken over by those that would do harm to the great masses of people living in the country they are positioned to lead. They are greedy liers that stand for all that is corrupt in the world.

If now is not the time to stand up and demand better leaders, tommorrow dreams and hopes will fade into a world full of darkness.

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It depends upon how you define freedom. If you believe freedom to be the ability to do anything at all then government by it’s very definition must limit freedom. To govern, which is the essential function of a government, restrictions must be imposed upon the choices and will of the people. How and when these limits are placed help determine the type of government. In oppressive forms of government value is placed upon the state at the expense of the individual.

As Thomas Paine wrote, “That government is best which governs least.” Which Thoreau expanded upon in ‘Civil Disobedience’ – “I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe–’that government is best which governs not at all’; and when men are prepared for it, that is the kind of government which they will have.”.

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Mercenaries paid with our tax dollars opened fire on Iraqi civilians recently. They killed 8 people and shot 13 more.
           
“They are untouchable,” one private soldier told the Los Angeles Times. “They’ve shot up other private security contractors, Iraqi military, police and civilians.”¹Now the Iraqi government has had enough, and has ordered Blackwater to stop work in the country. This morning the Iraqi Prime Minister demanded the U.S. use someone else to guard their VIP’s.² Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has promised an investigation, but that’s not enough.

          http://act.truemajorityaction.org/o/2/t/50/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=24Most of Blackwater’s work is guarding officials from the State Department. They are among the most high-profile mercenaries working in Iraq, but hardly the only ones. An astounding 120,000 “private security contractors” are in Iraq, 48,000 of them working as combat soldiers.³ They get paid far more than real soldiers, their deaths are not included in the official casualty counts, and they are essentially accountable to no one, according to state department officials.

1. “U.S. rushes to smooth Iraq’s anger over Blackwater,” Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2007

2. “Al-Maliki Says Blackwater Should Be Replaced for ‘Criminal Act’,” Bloomberg.com, September 19, 2007

3. U.S. GAO report

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