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US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold them indefinitely (addicting info.com)

We were told that weapons of mass destruction were going to rid America of our red, white and blue, then we were told that the Patriot Act would keep our bald eagle flying, then we were told that the Occupy Movement was a bunch of anarchists, lazy folk and if they were not arrested or peppered sprayed by police we would no longer have apple pie. Now it seems that the military must arrest and detain our citizens as if this country was a dictatorship keeping the bad guys in power or else we will no longer have motherhood or baseball. Are the red, white and blue, the bald eagle, apple pie and motherhood worth anything at all without the one true identity of America...Freedom?

We are told that now is not the time to spend any additional government money on alternative fuels: (various and sundry news papers and news outlets especially conservative communication organizations)

During the the 1973 oil embargo by the Arab states, this country came to find out that dependence on foreign governments to supply us our unsustainable quench for oil, had more dips in the road and very little smooth sailing. We found out that as powerful of a player as the US was in the world, we were brought to our red, white and blue knees and had to beg borrow and steal just to feed our engines, fuel our houses, and light our nights.

We were told by the president, the Congress the auto makers that being beholden to any other nation to keep our economy pumped and primed would end here and now. We saw the rockets red glare, we were the land of the fruited plane, we were all Uncle Sam’s kids and he would lead us to alternative energy. And for about 36 months, leading into 1976, our bicentennial, we forged together, we tightened our belts. We were promised the sun, moon and earth and sworn to that this was like Custer’s Last Stand, the first shot at Fort Sumpter, the Blockade of Cuba, and we would never look back.

And the sad thing is we never did look back. In 2011 we are told that drill baby drill is what will keep America strong. We are told that the Progressives who want solar, water, wind energy are really anti Capitalists and in turn anti American. We are told today is not the time to begin to end our reliance on oil, that we need to drill more and some time down the line we can act like Hippies and rely less on oil.

We are played the National Anthem, recite the Lords Prayer, sing America the Beautiful as the lobbyists who run this government demand that their puppets in Congress, fool the people of this nation into thinking anything but OIL, OIL, OIL is evil, evil, evil. And we all as a nation pledge allegiance to their snake oil.

American’s are treated as if we are ignoramuses, unable to understand how our government is run, the healthy priorities of our lives, and that someone other than us is more capable of making decisions about freedom, health, environment, and personal choice. We are given rules and regulations as to what makes a GOOD AMERICAN. We are told just what our founding fathers really meant ( as if any of the current mavens was alive at the time) when they established this nation, and that anyone who questions, petitions for answers, or does not readily stand to attention and cow tow to corporations is a socialist, communist, anarchist. We are lectured to by hypocrites, liars, the greedy and the gluttonous.

Everything is based on words, terms, phrases all like a big marketing plan. If it is good it is red, white and blue, if it is right it is apple pie, motherhood, baseball. If you doubt you must not understand the roots of this nation and you are an enemy of the state.

I often wonder just how much freedom must be lost before it can never ever be found again. I often wonder just how gullible one can get before reason and rational never return. I often wonder how we define being American as being sedentary, senile, subdued?

Most countries run by dictators give the army a whole of freedom while restricting freedom for anyone else! We say it can not happen here, but have we paying close enough attention?