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The basic values of America include, Freedom of speech, Religious freedom, and Equal rights, but on the one-dollar bill you see the "In God we trust" and the pyramid with the eye on top (this would be the symbol for God as far as Christianity goes). What happened to not mixing state and church and religious freedom (as long as it is the preferred religion?)

Marked so thoroughly by corruption of its own "ideals," it can hardly be called an open or a free market. A nation so consumed by its self-interests that the third world is ignored even to the detriment of goods consumed by you, the greedy American public!

And your media is so manipulated by endorsements that the "news" is never truly critical of politics, even when illegality is self-evident. However, this objectivity seems to be of slight concern to you, Joe Six-pack -- as long as you are not personally affected. It is sickening and I wonder just how much ignorance there must be in America for you to be so obtuse to such clear violations of your own values and beliefs!

Every day you take their kids to school and go to work, and every Sunday you go to church -- same story every week, every year -- and for what? A corrupt government that has a chokehold on the public; manipulated such that it isn't even noticed anymore? As life passes, what has changed in the "home of the free"?

Nothing.

Even with opportunity and freedom open for all Americans, you still use the world's population without ever having seen another country or even offered an open mind to hear the opinions of the rest of the world!

You say you that you are the Defender of Democracy when in reality this is a concept foreign to you: two parties, virtually the same, controlled by white Anglo-Saxons who value egocentric self-gain and ambition. This of course is unknown to the majority of the American public, but what the hell, as long as you make a comfortable living...

So in closing, SHAPE UP, WAKE UP, and watch BBC!!!

March 29, 2004