Now that's a great title to occupy us all through Halloween!
But my piece comes from a serious side of genuine shock at how many Americans continue to deliberately play ignorant and/or just won't get involved enough to ask questions. Easily jumping, uninformed, on the bandwagon of any cool sounding slogun.
The now cyclical Right-wing led Congressional panic every election cycle followed by the also routinely predictable and pathetic kow-towing by all of the Right and some fearful Democrats leaves little time to ever stop and say:
"Hey, can we really trust the Republicans and the Bush Administration with all this secretive power since THEY'VE ALREADY DECIEVED US ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE!!?? "
Many never ever bother asking how the Bush Administration actually uses all these new 'powers' or how the actual 'Intelligence' is used?? (And, more importantly, never forget the Republicans access to most of it!)
How can anyone be foolish enough to believe that the Bush Administration and the Republican party really give a damn about you or your family and when they've shown NO visible signs of it, in the public realm, for 6 years now!
They're sure as hell not looking out for the American peoples interests privately. The Dubai Port sales and a slew of other actions should have given everyone a hint of who they really were thinking about, when they thought no one was looking.
So I began to look for answers and found some interesting 'places', one of which I share here for the enlightenment of all:
Here's who Bush and the Republican party may have sold your families souls out to:
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