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I feel like a foreigner in my own country.

Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 06:24:52 AM PDT

"Ich bin ein auslander", translated to mean I am a foreigner in my own country.

I've felt like a foreigner in my own country for such a long, long time now. In fact, I don't even know my nation of birth some 55 years ago on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 anymore( which incidentally is also my first anniversary of making TU here on Dkos. Make all checks payable to...no, just kidding!) And I fear for the survival of our republic in ways that I've never felt before, unable to shake this gut-wrenching feeling that something most terrible is in the offing for us all. Anyway, everybody here seems to be more than just a little bit uneasy about the awful state of our union under the auspices of the newly-elected 110th Congress and their apparent total capitulation and surrender to Mister Bush.

Last night, I happened upon some rare and never-before or at the very least suppressed publicized videos of his speeches on YouTube, that I wished to share with everyone today, if I may be permitted the lattitude under the fold...

There's been an inundation of diaries here lately trying to make some logical sense at all out of all of the untoward, "by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes, open locks for whomever knocks" syndrome.

Well, last night I was surfing the web of old Bush speeches trying to look into the mind of Mister Bush, which should be an easy read, seeing it is such a short book from one with such a meager IQ of, I'm yawning too now, by the latest guesstimates of only 87 and dropping faster than his (and Congress') approval rating.

Please carefully watch them, chew them up, and swallow them, as the bitter pills they are.

I trust that upon drawing your own conclusions, as I'm quite sure, and I rest in the comfort of knowing that most all of you will find some solace in the fact that if you too, don't understand what's happening to America, right now under our very noses everyday, by this war criminal and treasonous cabal of constitution-usurpers and Bill of Rights-stomping legions of new world order minions, that you are not alone in your consternation and grief.

It seems that ever since 9/11, our own government has indeed become the very monsters that we have feared the most, domestic terrorism being our greatest national security threat, not some bearded old anti-Soviet, ex-CIA operative living in the mountains of Pakistan.

The building of internment camps by Halliburton since 2006, can only be meant for us.

The gutting of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus, extraordinary renditioning, torture, and domestic warrantless surveillance can only be meant for us.

There can only be one logical conclusion and determination that the ensuing establishment of a police state can only be meant for us, not to protect us as we once thought, but meant instead to subjugate!

Our Constitution and Congress, for all practical purposes couldn't have been more mortally-wounded by this Bush/Cheney regime, nor more effectively marginalized and countermanded, than if they had literally lined them all against the wall and executed them!

De facto coup d'etat, is just as vile as the accomplished act, and just as fatal in its finality of purpose.

Please watch these videos and render your take on them below. I dare say that you will be held spellbound, as I was, and no doubt frightened beyond measure at these startling new revelations, as I was, and am:

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  •  Tips for wishing it all were just a dream... (18+ / 0-)

    ...and hoping that it will all end when a new Democratic president is elected with the courage, the will, and intestinal fortitude to stop the nightmare, once and for all. We need a hero right now more than ever. Is it Hillary? Is it Obama? Is it Edwards? I fear we have very little time left in the discovery phase. Even shorter time to act!

    "Great men do not commit murder. Great nations do not start wars". William Jennings Bryan

    by ImpeachKingBushII on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 06:28:31 AM PDT

  •  Watch how you say that! (4+ / 0-)

    The wingers will try to have you deported if they even so much as get an inkling that you feel like a foreigner.

    I understand how you feel.  I'm just about right there with you at this point.

    Another day, another devalued Dollar. -6.00, -6.21

    by funluvn1 on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 06:29:27 AM PDT

  •  in the darkest days during Vietnam (10+ / 0-)

    I always felt an American.
    I signed up. I went in. I don't regret it for all the difficulty it caused in me.

    Now, I feel that my patriotism has been taken advantage of... used for some selfish purpose by all those who trumpeted and continue to trumpet this invasion of another country. more cynically, for the sake of the 2004 reelection of this/these felons.

  •  Similar feelings, similar thoughts. (8+ / 0-)

    But there is no way I can rewatch Bush's speeches. I want to hang on to my breakfast.

    "Though the Mills of the Gods grind slowly,Yet they grind exceeding small."

    by Owllwoman on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 06:56:22 AM PDT

  •  Absolutely Right Impeach! (6+ / 0-)

    Thanks very much for your diary and the Bush clips, which are sickening to the core.

    Last Friday, RI's Senator Sheldon Whitehouse exposed something of absolute significance but which has been completely buried in our congress and media.  We are truly no longer a nation of laws but of men.  We are already a dictatorship on paper, identical to the changes in 1933 Reich laws.

    It now remains to be seen if this treasonous administration and its enablers will push us to "stage 2" by escalating their actions against us through the unconstitutional powers Bush-Cheney have already grabbed.

    Given that their backers have been working on this project since Reagan's day at least, they are not going quietly into that good night between now and Nov '08 or beyond.  And we citizens may very well have a heckuva job to do in stopping them, given that our congress will not impeach these bastards regardless of the glaring imperative to do so.

  •  I'm 55 too and this ain't my country no more (8+ / 0-)

    at least regarding my comfort level..

    "Time is for careful people, not passionate ones"

    by roseeriter on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 07:01:38 AM PDT

    •  47 & feel the same (5+ / 0-)

      Never in the history of America has so much ruin been done by one man, so quickly.

      •  He did not do it alone. He is as much a symptom (2+ / 0-)

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        as cause of the rot in out nation where most of the electorate hasn't a clue about the Constitution or how government is supposed to work.

        It took decades of dumbing down to get where those of us remembering high hopes that maybe the progress we've seen in civil rights and economic fairness would survive MAD. Then we watched the Berlin wall fall and had real hope to see it dashed and smeared in slime now.

        I honestly do not know that what we'd hoped for, often fought for, will emerge again. At a fairly ripe old age I am getting tired of just having hopes.

        Then there is the sickness of the very planet. Even if our old hopes for the nation emerge we've watched this Nero fiddle away eight years of possible mitigation. Whether our nation emerges intact or not, this time in its history will probably be remembered  for this greedy blindness. I look on my grandchildren now and often have as much sadness as pleasure.

        The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and those are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence. [Elbert Hubbard]

        by pelagicray on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 09:28:00 AM PDT

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  •  Do not fall into (6+ / 0-)

    the "victim" trap. It's what they want you to believe.

    Intimidation works.

    Fight for your vision of America.

    Against silence, which is slavery. -- Czeslaw Milosz

    by Caneel on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 07:11:19 AM PDT

  •  the mass stupidty that elected this pathetic (5+ / 0-)

    ahole and count themselves in the 25% who still support him and then claim god on their side have doomed their children to a world they should not have to inherit. a say a pox on them!

  •  I am 61 years old, and this is my country, (5+ / 0-)

    If we had a loved one suffering from dementia, we would do everything in our power to comfort and help them. We certainly would not let them be President of the United States. I totally agree, George Bush is showing signs of dementia or alcoholic dead brain cell destruction.
    Prez needs to be impeached, arrested, or resign and seek treatment immediately.
    His family does not see it because he has been somewhat of a moron all his life, so they won't help him, not even at the expanse of our country's future. I still believe in our country, in our Congress and in the power of our people, and I want our country back, she is worth it.
    Mr.President, you do not speak for me!

    *a hundred years from now, the future may be different because I was important in the life of a child*

    by bonesy on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 07:23:09 AM PDT

    •  What's amazing is how the media (3+ / 0-)

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      goes to such lengths to pretend that there isn't anything wrong with Bush.  He definitely has a problem.  For a few years now, I've assumed that he was drinking alcoholically. That would explain a lot of the difficulties he has with speaking and language in general.  Even at times when an alcoholic has not been drinking, these kinds of difficulties will be evident.  The problem does go away as time in sobriety increases, and that's why I don't believe that Bush ever really stopped drinking.

      But the presenile dementia hypothesis is interesting too.  I'm going to go look that one up.

      The most powerful videos in the diary were the ones where Bush's words directed at the "terrorists"  have been changed so that he's talking about himself and his administration.  So often when I hear Bush speak it's so evident that he's projecting his own denied feelings onto others.  It's really frightening.

      There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you've got to put your bodies on the gears...and make it stop. -- Mario Savio

      by Boston Boomer on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 08:27:17 AM PDT

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  •  Watching (0+ / 0-)

    those videos was "hard werk."  I am glad to be gone!

    Another Proud Subscriber to the Mariachi Mama Bickering Moratorium!

    by mango on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 07:45:35 AM PDT

  •  We have met the enemy... (1+ / 0-)

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    and They is US!

    "What a peaceful world it would be if Barbara had aborted!"

    by DevonTexas on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 07:50:37 AM PDT

  •  Most Americans get their news from Nick... (2+ / 0-)

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    "Nick at night"!

    The point being: there is no "Nick News".
    The point futher being: They don't watch the news!

    But then again, what used to be news is no longer news, it's entertainment. Today it takes a real effort to be informed and most people don't have the time or inclination to do it.

    My mentor who passed away at 86 in early 2001 warned me repeatedly over many years about this sort of thing. He'd seen the problem coming well before 9/11. He pointed out at even for those who witness an event, there is rarely agreement on the details. As a historian, he said, "you must read several versions and, even then, you must come to the decision on your own about what might have really happened. No one will really know"

    The tragedy today is that few really are informed and this is precisely what the Bush Regime has exploited to an extent previously unheard of. They and the Repugnicans are experts at spinning the story.

    Most of these recordings are edited to be funny but what's not funny is that they could just as easily been perpetrated as propoganda rather than comedy. And, most Americans would see and believe them as "truth". In the words of the prophet, "You want the Truth?! You can't handle the truth!"

    (I'll stope before this becomes a diary! heehee!)

    "What a peaceful world it would be if Barbara had aborted!"

    by DevonTexas on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 08:43:26 AM PDT

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