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American Understanding Dawning

American Understanding Dawning

We are an optimistic nation, a hopeful nation. Whatever our politics, we hope that our political and corporate leaders value our lives. This is a wonderful thing about America. But it does leave us somewhat open to manipulation, deceit, and betrayal. I think this Administration is disastrous to us in ways that are have been sufficiently transparent for some time but that many people don’t want to see or believe.

Fellow Americans, I do believe that more of us are beginning to understand. More information will only show how deep the damage goes.

Read, please. Read more. Ask questions. Find out. Pick an issue and find out everything you can about it – from different points of view. Put together your own ethical judgment – whatever it is. Become truly informed to your very best ability. Only in this way can we have a functioning democracy again.

Here are a few links to articles that I think are worth reading.

By their words

By their words

“Not that I have anything against lawyers. Looking around the room, I’d guess that a year ago, about half of you were down in Florida.”
Dick Cheney, Nov 2001, to The Federalist Society

“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
George W. Bush, speech at a Washington dinner, 3/2001

“I am the federal government. I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am the Constitution.”
Tom DeLay responding to a government employee who tried to prevent him from smoking on government property, 1995

“I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”
George W. Bush

“Given the outcome of our work in Florida and with a new president in place, we think our services will expand across the country.”
Martin L. Fagan, ChoicePoint Vice-President, speaking of expunging voters from the rolls

“God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.”
George W. Bush, to former Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, 6/2003