Originally
posted by
General Earl:
I think its absurd that a country whose values were built on freedom of speech and the right to protest can get away with subverting people's rights in this way. It's even more sad that major news networks who's prime responsibility is to report stuff like this are shut up because stock holders have them by the balls.
The whole system is broken, and as per martian's post (
http://forums.earthempires.com/...t-doesn-t-want-us-to-know ) it's the corporations running America. Your democracy has compromised.
Though it would most certainly not be pretty, I really think the American people need to take a MUCH harder stand on this. Too many sheep are letting it slide.
There are many reasons for this (the corporations running America), and I would be here all night typing the history of it. It is very confusing, and you pretty much need a law dictionary to understand 90% of the corporate register, which is mistaken for our Constitution. The US Constitution hasn't technically existed since 1861, and wasn't replaced until 1871.
http://www.youtube.com/..._H5V0Kw&feature=share
The above video explains most of it. What he doesn't go into is the seizing of US Land up in through 1933-1940 that was really the final nail in the US peoples coffin (why we pay property taxes).
In short, all the events from 1861 up to the repealing of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 have greatly contributed to the situation we're in now.
But, my main point here is that the US people have little "rights" at all. If you register to vote, you actually "give up" your rights under the old constitution (which remember, doesn't really exist anymore) for a set of "privileges" to reap the benefits of being attached to the said system. Benefits such as social security, driving and professional licenses. Basically, it gives you access to the dollar. NukEvil hit the nail on the head here: most of the population is so glad to have that paycheck, that dollar, that iPhone, the new TV that they'll just let most of their rights go.
It goes SO FAR that in fact in order for our politicians to serve at the head of the system, THEY HAVE TO BE REMOVED FROM IT, and many are paid a substantial amount to let it ride out with tight lips. Best example to date: Tea Party. You want to talk about a political 180?????
Furthermore, through not just one, but several provisions in legislation from April 5, 1933 to the Bush era (2002 and up) US Citizens (the privileged) can, at any time be declared as enemy combatants and detained at the will of the United States so long as they have given up their rights to exist under a free constitution.
I'll leave it at that, I've droned on to long. Watch the above video, fire up the law dictionary (they may have one online) and do some research for yourself. You'd be surprised, shocked and appalled at what you'll find. More-so at what these banks can get away with now, that "we the people" have basically allowed them to do.
Schilling