Bill - as long as only 55% of the eligible voters in this country feel that its worth performing their civic duty (as part of their compact with the US to remain a working democracy) this country will continue to be totalitarian (in my eyes it already is extremely close to moving to a total dictatorship and wouldnt be surprised if the coming terrorist attack this year doesnt cause the final move to martial law and dictatorship) - a full turnout of the voting population would not only be amazing, but it would be the first step to regaining what the original framers of the Constitution felt was necessary to keep this country alive.
I see that earlier this week someone finally started reporting on the new Haliburton contract that was awarded - to build internment buildings and camps - on US soil - thats right - right here in the US.
Of course the "given reason" was in case there is a breakout of "bird flu" we would have to quarrantine entire segments of the population but I think that with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld making sure his company has given all the necessary patent rights to Roche to produce Tamiflu (he only gets a little residual income from that 2 billion dollar order the US just made on that 10 million worth of stock he owns in the company he was the CEO of) we should be able to protect everyone
Its amazing how the CEO of a company becomes the Sec of Defense - gets his drug patent for a flu epidemic that hasnt even been dreamed of yet (4 years ago) and lucky for him he just happens to be the major stockholder of the company
I guess thats sorta like the Vice President that was the CEO of Haliburton that gets all the construction contracts for Iraq rebuilding, Katrina rebuilding and now detention centers in the US - damn lucky he was in the right place at the right time
And to top it all off - nobody has even mentioned that little bitch over at the State Dept that seems to be dragging the whole world into WW3 - and yet when Condoleezza Rice left the board of directors of Chevron to become the National Security Adviser all of a sudden we need to get rid of those damn terrorist hiding Taliban so that Chevron's interests in the region are protected (hey another lucky person with her immense portfolio of stock she still has) and of course those multi-billion contracts between Haliburton and Chevron dont play into the picture much.
Sorry for the rant - but it seems like the Americans just sit and watch this shit and brush it off with a "ahhh- who cares we expect our politicians to be corrupt" attitude that is leading these wonderfully apathetic idiots right down the road to where Hitler would have loved to have had the German people a few years earlier - only it took him over 10 years to accomplish the same task